Overview
Podman is a daemonless, open-source, Linux-native tool
- designed to develop, manage, and run Open Container Initiative containers and pods
Podman does not use a long-running background process
Podman for Windows
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Podman provides native CLI and embeds a guest linux sys to launch containers on windows and mac
- this guest is referred to as a podman machine with podman machine command
- (on Windows) each podman machine is backed by a virtualized Windows subsystem for Linux (WSLv2)