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Podman — Overview

Podman is a management tool for managing containers. Its CLI closely mirrors Docker's — most docker <verb> commands have a direct podman <verb> equivalent — while also adding checkpoint/restore-based container migration and rootless pod support.

In this section

Page Description
Commands Core Podman CLI reference for images and containers.
Migration Moving a running container between hosts using checkpoint/restore.
Networking Creating and listing Podman networks.
Pods Creating a rootless pod and the basics of a pod's YAML manifest.