Identity

Binary: podman (no daemon — each invocation is a standalone process)
Storage (rootless): ~/.local/share/containers/storage/
Storage (root): /var/lib/containers/storage/
Config: /etc/containers/ (system), ~/.config/containers/ (user overrides)
Registries config: /etc/containers/registries.conf
Policy config: /etc/containers/policy.json
Quadlet units (rootless): ~/.config/containers/systemd/
Quadlet units (root): /etc/containers/systemd/
No socket required: no /var/run/docker.sock equivalent by default
Install: dnf install podman (Fedora/RHEL), apt install podman (Debian/Ubuntu 20.10+)

Key Operations

Task	Command
Run a container	`podman run -it --rm docker.io/library/alpine sh`
Run detached	`podman run -d --name myapp -p 8080:80 nginx`