Podman

Use this skill to build and run containers with Podman in a daemonless, rootless-first architecture.

Quick Start

1. Run podman info to verify Podman is installed and rootless mode is active.
2. On macOS/Windows, start the VM first: podman machine start.
3. Use podman with the same flags as Docker — most commands are drop-in compatible.
4. Use podman system prune carefully — it removes stopped containers and unused images.

Intent Router

• references/install-and-setup.md — install Podman by platform, machine setup, config files
• references/command-cookbook.md — podman run/build/push/pod/generate/play/compose commands
• references/rootless-and-pods.md — rootless architecture, user namespaces, pod networking
• references/podman-compose-and-systemd.md — podman-compose, Quadlets, systemd unit generation

Workflow