Podman

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

  • 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)