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Podman Playground

Podman is a daemonless, rootless container engine — OCI-compliant and drop-in compatible with Docker CLI commands..

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Welcome to the Podman Playground!

Podman — the modern, daemonless container engine. No background process, no root required. OCI-compliant and drop-in compatible with Docker commands.

Tip: Use podman or the alias d interchangeably. Podman commands are a drop-in replacement for docker commands.

What’s Pre-installed

Podman (latest, Alpine)
Alias: d = podman
Rootless: runs containers without root privileges

Quick Start

podman run hello-world
podman ps -a
podman images

Common Workflows

# Build and run
podman build -t myimage -f - <<'EOF'
FROM alpine
CMD ["echo", "hello from podman"]
EOF
podman run myimage

# Pods (Kubernetes-style grouping)
podman pod create --name mypod -p 8080:80
podman run -d --pod mypod nginx
podman pod ps
podman pod stop mypod

# Generate Kubernetes YAML from a pod
podman generate kube mypod

Advanced Tips

# Convert Docker Compose to pods
podman-compose up   # requires: pip install podman-compose

# Play a Kubernetes YAML (run a Pod locally)
podman play kube nginx-pod.yaml

# Export an image to OCI archive
podman save -o myimage.tar --format oci-archive myimage

# Show container diff
podman diff <container-id>

Session Notes

Session lasts 1 hour.
Use podman or the alias d interchangeably.