- Primary focus
- Manage OCI containers and pods with a daemonless, rootless-capable engine
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Source model
- Open source
- Pricing model
- open source
- API available
- Yes
- Windows desktop
- Yes
- Mobile app
- Not specified
- Overview
- Podman is an Apache-2.0 container engine for OCI images, containers and pods. It runs on Linux and uses a managed Linux machine on macOS and Windows, with a CLI and a documented REST API.

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| Attribute | |
|---|---|
| Overview | |
| Primary focus | Manage OCI containers and pods with a daemonless, rootless-capable engine |
| Deployment | Self-hosted |
| Source model | Open source |
| Pricing model | open source |
| API available | Yes |
| Windows desktop | Yes |
| Mobile app | Not specified |
| Overview | Podman is an Apache-2.0 container engine for OCI images, containers and pods. It runs on Linux and uses a managed Linux machine on macOS and Windows, with a CLI and a documented REST API. |
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