Podman Desktop - A graphical tool for developing on containers and Kubernetes

Documentation

• Overview
• Download
• Features
• Join Our Early Adopter Program (Optional)
• Roadmap
• Contributing
• Communication
• Code of Conduct
• License

Overview

Podman Desktop is a graphical interface that enables application developers to seamlessly work with containers and Kubernetes.

Podman Desktop installs, configures, and keeps Podman up to date on your local environment. It provides a system tray, to check status and interact with your container engine without losing focus from other tasks. The desktop application provides a dashboard to interact with containers, images, pods, and volumes but also configures your environment with your OCI registries and network settings. Podman Desktop also provides capabilities to connect and deploy pods to Kubernetes environments.

Podman Desktop also supports multiple container engines, pick your favourite one and use the tool!

Download

Check the downloads page on podman-desktop.io/downloads.

Features

Containers and pods dashboard

• Build, run, manage, and debug both containers and pods
• Run Pods on your container engine or with Kubernetes
• Convert your Pods to be running on Kubernetes
• Manage multiple container engines

Multiple container engine support

• Podman container engine
• crc
• Lima: Linux Machines
• Docker container engine

Podman engine update support

• Keep podman up-to-date on your PC by having Podman Desktop automatically install the newest version

System tray support

• Manage your Container engine
• Define your Kubernetes context

Enterprise capabilities

• Proxy Support
• OCI Image registries management

Bridge between local and remote environments

• Connect and deploy to both local or remote Kubernetes environments
• Change your Kubernetes context and pick your deployment environment

Join our early adopter program! (optional)

We are seeking developers who are interested in improving Podman Desktop!

Register your interest to join our Early Adopter Program by filling this form.

This is totally optional and does not change any Podman Desktop features.

Roadmap

All upcoming features are tracked with GitHub milestones.

Check out all our future features!

Contributing

Interested in fixing issues or contributing to Podman Desktop?

• 🐛 File bugs or feature requests on GitHub
• 🏁 Read our contributing guide
• 👌 Review or contribute a pull request

Communication

For all bug and feature requests please file a GitHub issue.

Discussions are done using GitHub Discussions.

Chatting

General questions & development:

• #podman-desktop on the Podman Discord
• #podman-desktop@libera.chat on IRC
• #podman-desktop@fedora.im on Matrix

Note: All channels are bridged. Chat on either Discord, IRC, or Matrix, and your messages will appear on all three platforms!

Kubernetes questions & development:

• #podman-desktop on the Kubernetes Slack

Adopters

Check out the list of companies already using Podman Desktop.

Code of Conduct

This project uses the Containers Community Code of Conduct.

Testing

License

Licensed under Apache 2.0.