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Podman Desktop: A Developer's Workbench for Containers and Kubernetes

by Shriira Press

Podman Desktop is a free, open-source desktop application that gives developers a graphical workbench for building, running, and inspecting containers and for working with Kubernetes on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Rather than tying you to one runtime, it speaks to several container engines at once, manages the lightweight virtual machines they need, and helps you move work from a laptop to a local cluster and back. This book starts with what Podman Desktop is and the friction it removes, opens up its Electron architecture and provider model, then covers engines and Podman machines, the everyday loop of images, containers, and pods, Kubernetes with Kind and Minikube, the extension system, and how teams adopt it in practice.

Contents

1. 1Preface
2. 2Chapter 1 — What Podman Desktop Is
3. 3Chapter 2 — Inside the Application
4. 4Chapter 3 — Engines and Machines
5. 5Chapter 4 — Images, Containers, and Pods
6. 6Chapter 5 — Working with Kubernetes
7. 7Chapter 6 — The Extension System
8. 8Chapter 7 — Podman Desktop in Practice