Podman Desktop Companion
- Podman offers an official cross-platform desktop UI available at Podman Desktop, give it a try.
- The container UI space is much more rich today, minimalist solutions exist, such as Pods, Podman TUI or feature rich ones such as Rancher Desktop
- Podman Desktop Companion is considered complete, it started by offering a familiar experience, but it strives to offer its own identity.
- It will not be shut-down or archived unless required, it was the first cross-platform container UI before any other existing solution.
- There is great pride in this(mom is proud), no other benefits were obtained, no donations on patreon or ko-fi since inception.
- It was my first experience with the open source world as a creator and the one that made me never do it again, at least not on my own.
- Thank you to The Podman Team and to all the great persons I've met!
A familiar desktop graphical interface to the free and open container manager, podman!
Main goals
- Cross-platform desktop integrated application with consistent UI
- Learning tool for the powerful
podmancommand line interface
- Linux - Install podman - note that distributions usually have older versions of podman, see Aalvistack for the most recent repositories.
Additional packages besides podman may be required, such as
aardvark-dnsandpasstfor networking (https://passt.top/passt/about/). If one wants to add support for docker container engine, the easiest is to install rootless docker as documented here https://linuxhandbook.com/rootless-docker/ - Windows - Install podman or provision your favorite WSL distribution with latest podman by following the instructions above for Linux. On your custom WSL distribution,
netcatorsocatare needed to relay unix sockets back to Windows native context. Examplesudo apt install netcatfor Ubuntu. - MacOS - Install podman or lima
NOTE - To access and monitor remote ssh installations, properly set-up the connections in your
$HOME/.ssh/configor$env:USERPROFILE/.ssh/configjust like you do for Visual Studio Code remote extensions https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh - SSH connections are tunneled through a tcp listener, listening tolocalhostonly.
- See USAGE.md
