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diff --git a/system/podman/README b/system/podman/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5295426059 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/podman/README @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +podman - for running OCI-based containers in Pods + +libpod provides a library for applications looking to use the Container Pod +concept popularized by Kubernetes. libpod also contains a tool called podman +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 existing Docker/OCI 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. + +These container runtimes can run as non-root, but require sub-uid/gid mappings |