Appendix C. Getting Podman

Podman is a great tool for working with containers, but how do you get it installed on your system? What packages are required to make it work? This appendix covers installing or building Podman on your system.

C.1 Installing Podman

Podman is available for almost all Linux distributions via their package managers. It is also available on Mac, Windows, and FreeBSD platforms. The official podman.io site, https://podman.io/getting-started/installation, is regularly updated with new instructions on how to install Podman for different distributions. Most of the content in this appendix originates from the podman.io site, as seen in figure C.1.

Figure C.1 Podman installation instructions website

C.1.1 macOS

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