TECH BASICS, CODEX

Getting Started with Podman

Arun Kumar Singh
CodeX
4 min readJan 4, 2021

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LXC -> DOCKER -> PODMAN

In Today’s world Containers are new norm in IT. Every one of us want to leverage its powerful features. It all started with LXC but Docker has given its current value. Docker is a container engine and it provides platform to manage complete life-cycle for containers. Docker makes it easier, simpler and safer to build, deploy, and manage containers.

Kernel Features Powering Containers

If you have worked on Docker, you understand that there is a daemon process which supports all your Docker Interaction. Using Docker CLI you can interact with Docker Engine and perform operations.

Podman is a Red Hat Supported new, open source Container Engine. You can say it’s an alternative of Docker. Podman has recently gained it’s popularity and considered as a primary rival of Docker. The main difference between Podman and Docker is that, Podman doesn’t require a daemon to run containers and pods. It launches containers and pods as child processes. Podman manages the entire container ecosystem which includes pods, containers…

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