Podman Skip to main content podman FeaturesGet StartedCommunityDevelopment BlogDocumentationGitHub The best free & open source container tools Manage containers, pods, and images with Podman. Seamlessly work with containers and Kubernetes from your local environment. Get Started Latest stable Podman 6.1.0-Latest stable Podman Desktop 1.29.1-Apache License 2.0 Supported Platforms Fast and light. Secure. Open. Compatible. Kubernetes Ready A growing set of compatible tools Visual Studio Code includes Podman support Cirrus CLI allows you to reproducibly run containerized tasks with Podman GitHub Actions include support for Podman, as well as friends buildah and skopeo Kind's ability to run local Kubernetes clusters via container nodes includes support for Podman What people are saying about Podman Ananth Iyer @mrananthiyer I am using @Podman_io for Magento 2 and it is super fast than other container tools. You must try it. #Podman #Magento #magento2 Jul 20, 2023 Shinya Yanagihara @yanashin18618 I recently started using @Podman_io Desktop, and I like it because it is quite easy and cozy to use. I wish I had used Podman earlier. https://twitter.com/vitalethomas/status/1671985089675247618 Jun 22, 2023 Fang-Pen Lin 🇺🇸🌈 @fangpenlin Had some fun digging #podman source code and learned how OCI hooks work. Created an open source OCI hook for archiving #overlayfs mount upperdir 😄 #container https://github.com/LaunchPlatform/oci-hooks-archive-overlay Jun 17, 2023 Gerald Venzl 🚀 @GeraldVenzl My colleague @scoter80 wrote a really cool blog post on how to run @Podman_io Desktop on #Oracle #Linux 9. Hint, hint, he demonstrates it by using Oracle #Database #Free :) https://blogs.oracle.com/scoter/post/run-oracle-database-23c-with-podman-desktop May 10, 2023 Have fun coloring and learn about Podman! A decentralized team of open source container tool superheroes comes to the rescue when an asteroid storm threatens the planet. Learn about each tool—Podman, CRI-O, Buildah, Skopeo, and OpenShift—as they redesign the planet's protective shields' container deployment to protect Earth. Download Docs Installation Instructions Documentation Podman CLI Commands Community Matrix Discord Blog Mailing List RSS Feed Projects Podman GitHub Podman Desktop GitHub Podman Website GitHub Podman Desktop Website Copyright © 2026 Podman Container Tools, a Series of LF Projects, LLC. Built with Docusaurus. For website terms of use, trademark policy, and other project policies, please see the LF Projects policies page.