Podman is an engine for running OCI-based containers in Pods. Podman provides a CLI interface for managing Pods, Containers, and Container Images.

At a high level, the scope of libpod and podman is the following: * Support multiple image formats including the OCI and Docker image formats. * Support for multiple means to download images including trust & image verification. * Container image management (managing image layers, overlay filesystems, etc). * Full management of container lifecycle. * Support for pods to manage groups of containers together. * Resource isolation of containers and pods. * Support for a Docker-compatible CLI interface through Podman.

Podman is a daemon-less alternative to Docker.