Podman
Daemonless container engine for building, running and managing OCI containers.
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What is this technology for?
Its role in production environments and why it is taught in our curriculums.
Podman is a daemonless container engine for building, running and managing OCI containers and pods — a secure, rootless alternative to Docker for development and production.
What you will learn
The hands-on skills you will gain on this technology in our curriculums.
- Run and manage containers and pods without a daemon
- Build container images with Containerfiles
- Manage images, volumes and container networks
- Use rootless containers for secure development
Latest News & Ecosystem Updates
Recent innovations, major releases, and key industry milestones in the ecosystem.
Podman 5.2: 4x Performance on macOS & Native Quadlet Enhancements
Full drop-in Docker Desktop replacement offering 100% daemonless, rootless containers integrated with systemd.
Podman Desktop AI Lab: Local Execution of Open Source LLMs
Intuitive GUI to test, infer, and prototype AI agent architectures locally before deploying to production clusters.
Featured in the curriculum
Find this technology in the following modules of our Red Hat certified curriculums.
AS200 — New DevOps Platform Engineer
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Podman & Containers
DO188 · Module 1 — AS200
AS300 — AI Platform Engineer
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Podman & Containers
DO188 · Module 1 — AS300
