podman-container-tools/podman
Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 8 days ago, with 420 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #38 in the weekly ranking the week of Jun 28, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Manages OCI containers, pods, images, and volumes with a daemonless, rootless-friendly CLI and REST API.
- Offers secure, rootless container management without a central daemon, reducing resource use and attack surface.
- Use for running and managing containers and pods on Linux, Mac, and Windows via Podman-managed VMs.
- Use for integrating container lifecycle management into CI/CD pipelines with Docker-compatible commands.
- Use for developing and testing containerized applications locally with Podman Desktop's GUI on multiple OSes.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
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.
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.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+625 stars over 84 days across 21 snapshot days; best day +15 on Aug 14.
Forks
3.4K+126
Open issues
982-129
Compared with peers in DevOps
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| milind-soni/OpenMausBot | 20.6K | +8.4K | 75 | today |
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| elie222/rakazo | 7.8K | +958 | 75 | today |
| AstrBotDevs/AstrBot | 46.6K | +774 | 75 | 10 days ago |
| podman-container-tools/podman | 33.2K | — | 65 | 8 days ago |
| Category median | 20.6K | +1.0K | 75 | — |
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