Appendix E. Podman on macOS

This appendix covers

  • Installing Podman on macOS
  • Using the podman machine init command to download a VM with a Podman service installed
  • Using the podman command to communicate with the Podman service running in the VM
  • Starting or stopping the VM with the podman machine start/stop commands

Podman is a tool for launching Linux containers. Linux containers require a Linux kernel. As much as I’d love to convince the world to move to the Linux Desktop like I use, most users work on macOS and Windows operating systems—perhaps even you. If you use the Linux Desktop, hooray! And if you don’t use a macOS machine, feel free to skip this appendix.

Because you did not skip this appendix, I’ll assume you want to create Linux containers ...

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