Podman is a container technology toolset, similar to Docker, Apptainer and Singularity. In most tasks Podman offers more features and options than Apptainer/Singularity, but is also more complex to set up and use. We therefore recommend Podman to more experienced users.
$ module avail Podman
$ module load Podman
$ module load Podman $ module list Currently Loaded Modules: 1) conmon/2.1.13 4) Podman/5.5.0 $ podman help Manage pods, containers and images Usage: podman [options] [command] Available Commands: artifact Manage OCI artifacts attach Attach to a running container auto-update Auto update containers according to their auto-update policy build Build an image using instructions from Containerfiles commit Create new image based on the changed container compose Run compose workloads via an external provider such as docker-compose or podman-compose container Manage containers cp Copy files/folders between a container and the local filesystem create Create but do not start a container diff Display the changes to the object's file system events Show podman system events exec Run a process in a running container export Export container's filesystem contents as a tar archive farm Farm out builds to remote machines generate Generate structured data based on containers, pods or volumes healthcheck Manage health checks on containers help Help about any command history Show history of a specified image image Manage images images List images in local storage import Import a tarball to create a filesystem image info Display podman system information init Initialize one or more containers inspect Display the configuration of object denoted by ID kill Kill one or more running containers with a specific signal kube Play containers, pods or volumes from a structured file load Load image(s) from a tar archive login Log in to a container registry logout Log out of a container registry logs Fetch the logs of one or more containers machine Manage a virtual machine manifest Manipulate manifest lists and image indexes mount Mount a working container's root filesystem network Manage networks pause Pause all the processes in one or more containers pod Manage pods port List port mappings or a specific mapping for the container ps List containers pull Pull an image from a registry push Push an image to a specified destination rename Rename an existing container restart Restart one or more containers rm Remove one or more containers rmi Remove one or more images from local storage run Run a command in a new container save Save image(s) to an archive search Search registry for image secret Manage secrets start Start one or more containers stats Display a live stream of container resource usage statistics stop Stop one or more containers system Manage podman tag Add an additional name to a local image top Display the running processes of a container unmount Unmount working container's root filesystem unpause Unpause the processes in one or more containers unshare Run a command in a modified user namespace untag Remove a name from a local image update Update an existing container version Display the Podman version information volume Manage volumes wait Block on one or more containers Options: --cdi-spec-dir stringArray Set the CDI spec directory path (may be set multiple times) (default [/etc/cdi]) --cgroup-manager string Cgroup manager to use ("cgroupfs"|"systemd") (default "cgroupfs") --config string Path to directory containing authentication config file --conmon string Path of the conmon binary -c, --connection string Connection to use for remote Podman service (CONTAINER_CONNECTION) --events-backend string Events backend to use ("file"|"journald"|"none") (default "file") --help Help for podman --hooks-dir stringArray Set the OCI hooks directory path (may be set multiple times) (default [/usr/share/containers/oci/hooks.d]) --identity string path to SSH identity file, (CONTAINER_SSHKEY) --imagestore string Path to the 'image store', different from 'graph root', use this to split storing the image into a separate 'image store', see 'man containers-storage.conf' for details --log-level string Log messages above specified level (trace, debug, info, warn, warning, error, fatal, panic) (default "warn") --module stringArray Load the containers.conf(5) module --network-cmd-path string Path to the command for configuring the network --network-config-dir string Path of the configuration directory for networks --out string Send output (stdout) from podman to a file -r, --remote Access remote Podman service --root string Path to the graph root directory where images, containers, etc. are stored --runroot string Path to the 'run directory' where all state information is stored --runtime string Path to the OCI-compatible binary used to run containers. (default "crun") --runtime-flag stringArray add global flags for the container runtime --ssh string define the ssh mode (default "golang") --storage-driver string Select which storage driver is used to manage storage of images and containers --storage-opt stringArray Used to pass an option to the storage driver --syslog Output logging information to syslog as well as the console (default false) --tmpdir string Path to the tmp directory for libpod state content. Note: use the environment variable 'TMPDIR' to change the temporary storage location for container images, '/var/tmp'. (default "/run/user/32195/libpod/tmp") --transient-store Enable transient container storage --url string URL to access Podman service (CONTAINER_HOST) (default "unix:///run/user/32195/podman/podman.sock") -v, --version version for podman --volumepath string Path to the volume directory in which volume data is stored
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