Red Hat OpenShift provides powerful command-line and web UI tools for building, managing, and running containers in units referred to as pods. You can build and manage individual containers and container images outside of OpenShift.

You can use the following tools to perform these tasks directly on RHEL systems. Red Hat provides a set of command-line tools that can operate without a container engine. These include:

• Podman - for directly managing pods and container images (run, stop, start, ps, attach, exec, and so on)
• buildah - for building, pushing, and signing container images
• skopeo - for copying, inspecting, deleting, and signing images
• runc - for providing container run and build features to Podman and buildah
• crun - an optional runtime that can be configured and gives greater flexibility, control, and security for rootless containers

Besides these tools, you can also use Podman Desktop, that is, a GUI-based application for container management. Podman Desktop is built on top of Podman, making it easy to create, manage, and run containerized applications visually.

Because these tools are compatible with the Open Container Initiative (OCI), they can be used to manage the same Linux containers that are produced and managed by Docker and other OCI-compatible container engines. However, they are especially suited to run directly on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in single-node use cases.