Podman Desktop - A graphical tool for developing on containers and Kubernetes

Podman Desktop is a graphical interface that enables application developers to seamlessly work with containers and Kubernetes.

Podman Desktop installs, configures and keeps Podman up to date on your local environment. It provides a system tray, to check status and interact with your container engine without losing focus from other tasks. The desktop application provides a dashboard to interact with containers, images, pods and volumes but also configures your environment with your OCI registries and network settings. Podman Desktop also provides capabilities to connect and deploy pods to Kubernetes environments.

Podman Desktop provides the ability to natively work with Kubernetes objects, which helps to gradually and naturally transition from containers to Kubernetes. Podman Desktop also provides an out-of-the-box Kubernetes environment based on Kind. This means that developers can create and test applications in an environment that closely mirrors production, preventing configuration changes between development and production and ensuring a smooth transition from one environment to another.

One of the unique features of Podman Desktop is its integration with Red Hat OpenShift Local, which lets users develop and test applications locally using the same container images and environment as they would in a production  environment on Red Hat OpenShift. This means you can ensure that your applications will run smoothly in an OpenShift environment before deploying them.

Features:

• Build, run, manage, and debug both containers and pods
• Run Pods on your container engine or with Kubernetes
• Convert your Pods to be running on Kubernetes
• Manage multiple container engines like Podman, crc, Docker
• Manage volumes
• Compatabile with Docker Compose
• Use the built-in terminal to ssh into containers