Red Hat Summit1.5. Installing Podman Desktop
Podman Desktop helps developers to perform their daily development tasks and visualize their development environment, such as the number of pods or containers running. You can run this tool on three different operating systems; macOS, Windows, and Linux. Podman Desktop runs your workloads on a Podman engine and therefore, provides you Podman-native capabilities to interact with your containerized applications. As a developer, you can:
- Create and manage containers or pods
- Manage container images
- Deploy containers or pods to Kubernetes using Kind, Lima, Minikube or OpenShift
- Manage Docker compatibility to run your Docker workloads on a Podman engine
- Integrate your tools using extensions
For installation, use the subscription manager package on a RHEL 10 machine.
Prerequisites
- You have a RHEL 10 machine.
-
You have registered with the
subscription-managerusing either your account details or the activation key.
Procedure
Open a terminal, and enable the RHEL extensions repository:
# subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-10-for-$(arch)-extensions-rpms- Enter your password when prompted.
Install Podman Desktop:
# dnf install podman-desktop-
Enter
yto confirm the installed size. -
Enter
yto import the GPG key and complete the installation.
Verification
- Enter Podman Desktop in the search box at the top of your home screen, and click the Podman Desktop application to open it.
- Follow the prompts to complete a quick onboarding process with the application.
Podman is included with a RHEL subscription, and the application automatically detects and runs it.
Next steps
Perform basic tasks, such as:
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