podman

GitHub describes it as Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.. The repository metadata lists Go as its primary language. The metadata lists the Apache-2.0 license. This article stays within the project description and details documented in the GitHub repository README.

GitHub describes it as Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.. The repository metadata lists Go as its primary language. The metadata lists the Apache-2.0 license. The README describes the project this way: Podman (the POD MANager) is a tool for managing containers and images, volumes mounted into those containers, and pods made from groups of containers. Podman runs containers on Linux, but can also be used on Mac and Windows systems using a Podman-managed virtual machine. Podman is based on libpod, a library for container lifecycle management that is also contained in this repository. The libpod library provides APIs for managing containers, pods, container images, and volumes.

The README section "Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods" states: Podman releases a new major or minor release 4 times a year, during the second week of February, May, August, and November. Patch releases are more frequent and may occur at any time to get bugfixes out to users. All releases are PGP signed. Public keys of members of the team approved to make releases are located here.

The README section "Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods" states: Only the most recent release receives upstream support. Exceptions are sometimes made after a major Podman release, in recognition of the fact that not all users and distributions will be able to quickly migrate to a breaking change release. After the release of Podman 6.0, the Podman maintainers have decided to extend upstream support of the v5.8 series of releases until the 2nd week of June in 2027, one year after the release of Podman 6.0. This support will only include CVE fixes and critical bugfixes.

The README section "Overview and scope" states: Support for multiple container image formats, including OCI and Docker images. Full management of those images, including pulling from various sources (including trust and verification), creating (built via Containerfile or Dockerfile or committed from a container), and pushing to registries and other storage backends. Full management of container lifecycle, including creation (both from an image and from an exploded root filesystem), running, checkpointing and restoring (via CRIU), and removal. Full management of container networking, using Netavark. Support for pods, groups of containers that share resources and are managed together. Support for running containers and pods without root or other elevated privileges. Resource isolation of containers and pods. Support for a Docker-compatible CLI interface, which can both run containers locally and on remote systems. No manager daemon, for improved security and lower resource utilization at idle. Support for a REST API providing both a Docker-compatible interface and an improved interface exposing advanced Podman functionality. Support for running on Windows and Mac via virtual machines run by podman machine .

The repository README is the source for this review. It does not replace a local installation or an independent test.

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