305  podman(1) - Kailash Tool Reference

305.1 podman

podman - Podman — OCI container and pod management.

Layer OPS
Category o-02-compute-serving-infrastructure
Safety class safe
Licence Apache-2.0
Upstream github.com/containers/podman

305.1.1 NAME

podman - Podman — OCI container and pod management.

305.1.2 SYNOPSIS

Not derived automatically - see upstream documentation. This page does not hand-copy flags (generation contract, ADR-0001).

305.1.3 DESCRIPTION (upstream)

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 r

305.1.4 CONFIGURATION (detected)

Config-surface markers detected in the upstream README (3 matches, e.g. ci.yml, ci.yml). A full config reference page for this tool is queued under the config-page policy — this line is the detection record, not the page.

305.1.5 SEE ALSO

ref: pin - verified 2026-10-14