How to Install Podman on CentOS Stream 9

Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running Open Container Initiative (OCI) containers and container images on your Linux System. Podman provides a Docker-compatible command-line front end that can simply alias the Docker CLI, alias docker=podman.

Installing Podman on CentOS Stream 9

Install Podman by running the following command.

dnf install podman

To check the version of podman.

podman --version

View installed package details by running the following command.

rpm -qi podman

To check the host Information.

podman info

Example: Running an Alpine Linux Container

Download the alpine image by running the following command.

podman pull alpine

Listing Downloaded Images

Check the list of downloaded images by running the following command.

podman images

Now you have successfully installed Podman on your CentOS Stream 9.