podman

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