Podman Desktop is a graphical interface that enables application developers to seamlessly work with containers and Kubernetes.
Podman Desktop installs, configures, and keeps Podman up to date on your local environment. It provides a system tray, to check status and interact with your container engine without losing focus from other tasks. The desktop application provides a dashboard to interact with containers, images, pods, and volumes but also configures your environment with your OCI registries and network settings. Podman Desktop also provides capabilities to connect and deploy pods to Kubernetes environments.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Containers and pods dashboard:
- Build, run, manage, and debug both containers and pods.
- Run Pods on your container engine or with Kubernetes.
- Convert your Pods to be running on Kubernetes.
- Manage multiple container engines.
- Multiple container engine support:
- Podman container engine.
- crc.
- Lima: Linux Machines.
- Docker container engine.
- Podman engine update support:
- Keep podman up-to-date on your PC by having Podman Desktop automatically install the newest version
- System tray support:
- Manage your Container engine.
- Define your Kubernetes context.
- Enterprise capabilities:
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- Proxy Support.
- OCI Image registries management.
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- Bridge between local and remote environments:
- Connect and deploy to both local or remote Kubernetes environments.
- Change your Kubernetes context and pick your deployment environment.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: podman-desktop.io
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: podman desktop
License: Apache License 2.0
Podman Desktop is written in TypeScript. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.