Complete Podman commands reference — 61 commands across 5 categories. Quick reference cheat sheet for Linux & Mac.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| podman artifact | Manage OCI artifacts |
| podman build | Build a container image using a Containerfile |
| podman history | Show the history of an image |
| podman image | Manage images |
| podman images | List images in local storage |
| podman import | Import a tarball and save it as a filesystem image |
| podman inspect | Display artifact, container, image, volume |
| podman load | Load image(s) from tar archives, directories |
| podman manifest | Create and manipulate manifest lists and image |
| podman pull | Pull an image from a registry |
| podman push | Push an image, manifest list or image index |
| podman rmi | Remove one or more locally stored images |
| podman save | Save image(s) to an archive or directory |
| podman search | Search a registry for an image |
| podman tag | Add an additional name to a local image |
| podman untag | Remove one or more names from a locally-stored image |
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| podman attach | Attach to a running container |
| podman commit | Create new image based on the changed container |
| podman container | Manage containers |
| podman cp | Copy files/folders between a container |
| podman create | Create a new container |
| podman diff | Inspect changes on a container or image's filesystem |
| podman exec | Execute a command in a running container |
| podman export | Export a container's filesystem contents as a tar |
| podman init | Initialize one or more containers |
| podman kill | Kill the main process in one or more containers |
| podman logs | Display the logs of one or more containers |
| podman pause | Pause one or more containers |
| podman port | List port mappings for a container |
| podman ps | Print out information about containers |
| podman rename | Rename an existing container |
| podman restart | Restart one or more containers |
| podman rm | Remove one or more containers |
| podman run | Run a command in a new container |
| podman start | Start one or more containers |
| podman stats | Display a live stream of one or more container's |
| podman stop | Stop one or more running containers |
| podman top | Display the running processes of a container |
| podman unpause | Unpause one or more containers |
| podman update | Update the configuration of a given container |
| podman wait | Wait on one or more containers to stop and print |
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| podman farm | Farm out builds to machines running podman |
| podman mount | Mount a working container's root filesystem |
| podman network | Manage Podman networks |
| podman quadlet | Allows users to manage Quadlets |
| podman secret | Manage podman secrets |
| podman unmount | Unmount a working container's root filesystem |
| podman volume | Simple management tool for volumes |
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| podman compose | Run Compose workloads via an external compose |
| podman generate | Generate structured data based on containers, pods |
| podman kube | Play containers, pods or volumes based |
| podman pod | Management tool for groups of containers, called |
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| podman events | Monitor Podman events |
| podman healthcheck | Manage healthchecks for containers |
| podman info | Display Podman related system information |
| podman login | Log in to a container registry |
| podman logout | Log out of a container registry |
| podman machine | Manage Podman's virtual machine |
| podman system | Manage podman |
| podman unshare | Run a command inside of a modified user namespace |
| podman version | Display the Podman version information |
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