github.com/containers/libpod@v1.9.4-0.20220419124438-4284fd425507/cmd/podman/README.md (about) 1 # Podman - Simple debugging tool for pods and images 2 Podman is a daemonless container runtime for managing containers, pods, and container images. 3 It is intended as a counterpart to CRI-O, to provide low-level debugging not available through the CRI interface used by Kubernetes. 4 It can also act as a container runtime independent of CRI-O, creating and managing its own set of containers. 5 6 ## Use cases 7 1. Create containers 8 2. Start, stop, signal, attach to, and inspect existing containers 9 3. Run new commands in existing containers 10 4. Push and pull images 11 5. List and inspect existing images 12 6. Create new images by committing changes within a container 13 7. Create pods 14 8. Start, stop, signal, and inspect existing pods 15 9. Populate pods with containers