Homebrew Formulae: podman

podman

Install command:

brew install podman

Tool for managing OCI containers and pods

https://podman.io/

License: Apache-2.0 AND GPL-3.0-or-later

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/podman.json

Formula code: podman.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on Apple Silicon	golden gate	✅
	tahoe	✅
	sequoia	✅
Linux	ARM64	✅
Linux	x86_64	✅

Current versions:

stable	✅	6.2.0
head	⚡️	HEAD

Depends on:

krunkit

1.3.2

CLI tool to start VMs with libkrun

Depends on when building from source:

go	1.27.4	Open source programming language to build simple/reliable/efficient software
go-md2man	2.0.7	Converts markdown into roff (man pages)
make	4.4.1	Utility for directing compilation

Uses from macOS: perl (build), python (build)

Requires: arm64 architecture, macOS >= 13

Binaries: podman, podman-remote, podmansh

Service:

Start now and at login:	`brew services start podman`
Run directly:	`$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/podman/bin/podman system service --time 0`

In order to run containers locally, podman depends on a Linux kernel.
One can be started manually using `podman machine` from this package.
To start a podman VM automatically at login, also install the cask
"podman-desktop".

GitHub Packages downloads:

Last 30 days	100,415
Downloads	4,004,904
Analytics install events (30 days)	15,109
Downloads / install events (30 days)	6.7×

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Analytics:

	30 days	90 days	365 days
Installs	15,077	35,353	217,674
Installs (`--HEAD`)	32	82	323
Installs on Request	12,728	31,080	200,812
Installs on Request (`--HEAD`)	32	82	323
Build Errors	21