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@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@  -# Library and tool for running OCI-based containers in Pods +# Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods -Libpod provides a library for applications looking to use the Container Pod concept, -popularized by Kubernetes. Libpod also contains the Pod Manager tool `(Podman)`. Podman manages pods, containers, container images, and container volumes. +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 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: 2.0.2](https://github.com/containers/libpod/releases/latest) * Latest Remote client for Windows @@ -15,26 +15,24 @@ popularized by Kubernetes. Libpod also contains the Pod Manager tool `(Podman)` ## Overview and scope -At a high level, the scope of libpod and Podman is the following: +At a high level, the scope of Podman and libpod is the following: -* Support multiple image formats including the OCI and Docker image formats. -* Support for multiple means to download images including trust & image verification. -* Container image management (managing image layers, overlay filesystems, etc). -* Full management of container lifecycle. -* Support for pods to manage groups of containers together. +* 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. +* Support for pods, groups of containers that share resources and are managed together. * Resource isolation of containers and pods. -* Support for a Docker-compatible CLI interface through Podman. +* Support for a Docker-compatible CLI interface. * Support for a REST API providing both a Docker-compatible interface and an improved interface exposing advanced Podman functionality. -* Integration with CRI-O to share containers and backend code. +* In the future, integration with [CRI-O](https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o) to share containers and backend code. Podman presently only supports running containers on Linux. However, we are building a remote client which can run on Windows and OS X and manage Podman containers on a Linux system via the REST API using SSH tunneling. ## Roadmap -1. Complete the Podman REST API and Podman v2, which will be able to connect to remote Podman instances via this API -1. Integrate libpod into CRI-O to replace its existing container management backend -1. Further work on the podman pod command -1. Further improvements on rootless containers +1. Further improvements to the REST API, with a focus on bugfixes and implementing missing functionality +1. Integrate libpod into [CRI-O](https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o) to replace its existing container management backend +1. Improvements on rootless containers, with a focus on improving the user experience and exposing presently-unavailable features when possible ## Communications @@ -67,10 +65,10 @@ A little configuration by an administrator is required before rootless Podman ca ## Out of scope -* Specializing in signing and pushing images to various storage backends. +* Specialized signing and pushing of images to various storage backends. See [Skopeo](https://github.com/containers/skopeo/) for those tasks. -* Container runtimes daemons for working with the Kubernetes CRI interface. - [CRI-O](https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o) specializes in that. +* Support for the Kubernetes CRI interface for container management. + The [CRI-O](https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o) daemon specializes in that. * Supporting `docker-compose`. We believe that Kubernetes is the defacto standard for composing Pods and for orchestrating containers, making Kubernetes YAML a defacto standard file format. Hence, Podman allows the |