Podman
Podman is a tool for managing containers, pods and container images, available from https://github.com/containers/podman . Debians main development efforts are https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libpod .
podman is available in in stable, testing and unstable => podman.
Installing
Podman can be installed directly via apt, optionally choosing an alternative container runtime (runc is installed by default).
apt install podman crun
By default "podman search podman" will return nothing, requiring a full registry to be specified.
podman search --limit 3 quay.io/podman INDEX NAME DESCRIPTION STARS OFFICIAL AUTOMATED quay.io quay.io/containers/podman This public repository contains the "stable"... 0 quay.io quay.io/libpod/testimage Image used by podman CI testing; see test/sy... 0 quay.io quay.io/podman/stable This public repository contains the "stable"... 0
To enable searching registries without specifying them:
mkdir -p $HOME/.config/containers echo 'unqualified-search-registries=["docker.io", "quay.io"]' > $HOME/.config/containers/registries.conf
search will now find results on those registries.
podman search podman INDEX NAME DESCRIPTION STARS OFFICIAL AUTOMATED docker.io docker.io/mgoltzsche/podman Provides podman and its dependencies statica... 3 docker.io docker.io/marshallford/podman https://github.com/marshallford/podman 2 docker.io docker.io/agrozyme/podman-qemu Alpine-based image with podman and qemu. Eas... 0 docker.io docker.io/greyarch/podman Podman image for use in CI/CD workflows 0 [... cut other results ...] podman search podman |wc -l 51
See https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/8896 for more background. Be aware there may be security implications with 'podman pull' as a result of this change
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