podman (Pod Manager) is a fully featured container engine that is a
simple daemonless tool. podman provides a Docker-CLI comparable
command line that eases the transition from other container engines
and allows the management of pods, containers and images. Simply put:
alias docker=podman.
podman uses Buildah(1) internally to create container images. Both
tools share image (not container) storage, hence each can use or
manipulate images (but not containers) created by the other.
The FreeBSD port of the podman container engine is experimental and should be
used for evaluation and testing purposes only.
$ sudo podman run --rm docker.io/dougrabson/hello
podman can restart containers after a host is rebooted. To enable this, use:
$ sudo sysrc podman_enable=YES
and start the container with a restart policy:
$ sudo podman run -d --restart=always myimage
