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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.
+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).
+* 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
+These container runtimes can run as non-root, but require sub-uid/gid
+mappings.
To run podman as a user: