This is a portable AppImage for podman.
This project was mostly created to ease the access to podman on platforms where it's not straightforward to get it from the package manager (e.g.: read-only rootfs) like SteamOS used on Valve's Steam Deck.
But it should also work as portable podman solution in any other environment.
The AppImage's entrypoint does the necessary setup to get a working environment and should generally be used in rootless mode (the user will be prompted for root access for the first time setup to configure the necessary files to get a working rootless mode). root mode does work too if really needed.
Head on over to the Releases for the latest builds.
By default launching the AppImage will open a podman-shell session:
In it you have access to the various podman commands: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/Commands.html
You can also rename the appimage or more practically, create a symlink to it to quickly access a specific binary.
For instance to access podman directly without going through the podman-shell you can do the following:
ln -s podman-*.AppImage podmanAnd invoke podman directly:
./podman infoThe AppImage currently includes the following binaries:
btrfs btrfs-image catatonit criu docker podman
btrfsck btrfs-map-logical compel criu-ns fsck.btrfs podman-remote
btrfs-convert btrfs-select-super conmon crun fuse-overlayfs podman-shell
btrfs-find-root btrfstune crit crun.static mkfs.btrfs slirp4netns
Install podman through your package manager and then simply run:
./build.shA podman-*.AppImage will created in the current folder.
CentOS 8 is used as base for building. At first CentOS 7 was considered but the systemd version was too old to build the most recent podman version and dependencies.
- Arch Linux for providing the build recipes for the packages and the wiki ressources
- podman for being an awesome container tool
- AppImage for being a very neat portable packaging solution