Container Deployment & Lifecycle

Distro support

Two-family skill. The container CLI is the same idea on both — docker on a Docker host, podman on the RHEL family — and most verbs are identical. The difference is how you run containers as managed services: Docker uses a hand-written systemd unit that calls docker compose; Podman uses podman generate systemd (legacy) or Quadlet .container units (RHEL 9+, the modern path). The body below uses Docker on Debian/Ubuntu; substitute per this matrix.