How to Install Podman MacOS/Ubuntu/CentOS/RHEL/Debian/Fedora/OpenSUSE

 Oracle Linux 8 (OL8) includes Podman, Buildah and Skopeo in the "ol8_appstream" repository. On this article I'll describe how to install Podman on different OS'es.  RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 has dropped official support for Docker as container runtime. Instead, Red Hat has been working on libpod (Podman’s container management library). Most container related tools on CentOS 8 are available on the module called container-tools.

CetsOS 8 / RHEL 8 

Enable EPEL repository

Please install EPEL repository as it would be require while installing Powertools.

Enable EPEL Repository for CentOS

CentOS & RHEL EPEL RPM Latest Link

Enable PowerTools  repository

dnf config-manager --set-enabled powertools

Install Podman

Update your system.

dnf -y update

Install podman

dnf install -y @container-tools

Check the Podman Version

[root@podman ~]podman version
Version:      3.3.1
API Version:  3.3.1
Go Version:   go1.16.7
Built:        Wed Nov 10 15:32:15 2021
OS/Arch:      linux/amd64
[root@podman ~]

Deploy a Container using the Podman

[root@podman ~]podman run hello-world
Resolved "hello-world" as an alias (/etc/containers/registries.conf.d/000-shortnames.conf)
Trying to pull docker.io/library/hello-world:latest...
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob 2db29710123e done
Copying config feb5d9fea6 done
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures

Hello from Docker!
This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.

To generate this message, Docker took the following steps:
 1. The Docker client contacted the Docker daemon.
 2. The Docker daemon pulled the "hello-world" image from the Docker Hub.
    (amd64)
 3. The Docker daemon created a new container from that image which runs the
    executable that produces the output you are currently reading.
 4. The Docker daemon streamed that output to the Docker client, which sent it
    to your terminal.

To try something more ambitious, you can run an Ubuntu container with:
 $ docker run -it ubuntu bash

Share images, automate workflows, and more with a free Docker ID:
 https://hub.docker.com/

For more examples and ideas, visit:
 https://docs.docker.com/get-started/

[root@podman ~]podman ps -a
CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                                 COMMAND     CREATED         STATUS                     PORTS       NAMES
dd609ba99f45  docker.io/library/hello-world:latest  /hello      39 seconds ago  Exited (0) 39 seconds ago              wonderful_mendel
[root@podman ~]

MacOS

The Mac client is available through Homebrew:

brew install podman

To start the Podman-managed VM:

podman machine init
podman machine start

You can then verify the installation information using:

podman info

Debian

The podman package is available in the Debian 11 (Bullseye) repositories and later.

sudo apt-get -y install podman

Fedora

sudo dnf -y install podman

openSUSE

sudo zypper install podman

Ubuntu

The podman package is available in the official repositories for Ubuntu 20.10 and newer.

# Ubuntu 20.10 and newer
sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y install podman