Red Hat has published the first major release of Podman Desktop, a GUI implementation for creating, running, and managing containers that competes with products such as Rancher Desktop and Docker Desktop. Podman Desktop allows developers without system administration skills to create, run, test and publish microservices and applications developed for container isolation systems on their workstation before deploying them to production environments. The Podman Desktop code is written in TypeScript using the Electron platform and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Ready assemblies are prepared for Linux, Windows and macOS.
Integration with Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms is supported, as well as the use of various runtimes for running containers, such as Podman Engine, Podman Lima, crc and Docker Engine. The environment on the developer's local system can mirror the configuration of the production environment in which finished applications are running (among other things, multi-node Kubernetes clusters and OpenShift environments can be simulated on the local system). Support for additional engines to run containers, Kubernetes providers, and toolkits can be implemented as add-ons to Podman Desktop. For example, add-ons are available to run a single-node OpenShift Local cluster locally and connect to the OpenShift Developer Sandbox cloud service.
Tools are provided for managing container images, working with pods and partitions, building images from Containerfile and Dockerfile, connecting to containers via the terminal, downloading images from OCI container registries and publishing your images in them, managing resources available in containers (memory, CPU , storage).
Podman Desktop can also be used to convert container images and connect to both local container isolation engines and external Kubernetes-based infrastructure to host their pods and generate YAML files for Kubernetes or run Kubernetes YAML on a local system without Kubernetes .
It is possible to minimize the application to the system tray for quick management through a widget that allows you to evaluate the status of containers, stop and start containers, and manage environments based on the Podman and Kind toolkits without being distracted from development.
Source: opennet.ru