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@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ # Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods 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. * [Latest Version: 4.1.0](https://github.com/containers/podman/releases/tag/v4.1.0) @@ -24,16 +25,15 @@ At a high level, the scope of Podman and libpod is the following: * 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. +* 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. - -Podman presently only supports running containers on Linux. However, we are building a remote client which can run on Windows and macOS and manage Podman containers on a Linux system via the REST API using SSH tunneling. +* Support for running on Windows and Mac via virtual machines run by `podman machine`. ## Roadmap -1. Further improvements to the REST API, with a focus on bugfixes and implementing missing functionality -1. Improvements on rootless containers, with a focus on improving the user experience and exposing presently-unavailable features when possible +1. A fully-featured GUI frontend for `podman machine` +1. Further improvements to `podman generate kube` and `podman play kube` 1. Improvements to Pods, including the addition of pod-level resource limits ## Communications @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ includes tables showing Docker commands and their Podman equivalent commands. Tutorials on using Podman. **[Remote Client](https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorials/remote_client.md)** -A brief how-to on using the Podman remote-client. +A brief how-to on using the Podman remote client. **[Basic Setup and Use of Podman in a Rootless environment](https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorials/rootless_tutorial.md)** A tutorial showing the setup and configuration necessary to run Rootless Podman. |