To non-Linuxy people, Podman is either the shady guy selling knock-off vape supplies outside your local youth club, or some kind of third-tier superhero with the power to control dolphins with his mind. An outside possibility would be the frozen refugee from an intergalactic war, discovered in his icy refuge below Antarctica.
In the context of this magazine, however, Podman is none of these things. It is, in fact, the latest and greatest containerisation solution for Linux. All the cool kids are using it to develop and deploy transferable applications on their systems, and you should, too. Originally developed by Red Hat, Podman is a container engine, and its containers are known, somewhat unsurprisingly, as pods. Download a Podman application, and you get one infracontainer, which maintains namespaces and manages…
