Podman Installation Instructions

While "containers are Linux," Podman also runs on Mac and Windows, where it provides a native podman CLI and embeds a guest Linux system to launch your containers. This guest is referred to as a Podman machine and is managed with the podman machine command. Podman on Mac and Windows also listens for Docker API clients, supporting direct usage of Docker-based tools and programmatic access from your language of choice.

On Mac, each Podman machine is backed by a virtual machine. Once installed, the podman command can be run directly from the Unix shell in Terminal, where it remotely communicates with the podman service running in the Machine VM.

Since Brew is a community-maintained package manager, we cannot guarantee stability of Brew installs of Podman. Thus, installing via Brew is not recommended.

However, if you do wish to use Brew, you must first install Homebrew. Once you have set up brew, you can use the brew install command to install Podman:

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