Pods is a frontend for Podman, a tool for managing containers and images, volumes mounted into those containers, and pods made from groups of containers.
Pods uses libadwaita for its user interface and strives to meet the design principles of GNOME.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Connect to local and remote Podman instances.
- Easily overview images, containers and pods.
- View prepared information about images, containers, and pods.
- Inspect images, containers and pods.
- View and search container logs.
- Monitor processes of containers and pods.
- Download images and build them using Dockerfiles.
- Create pods and containers.
- Control the lifecycle of containers and pods (in bulk) (start, stop, pause, etc.).
- Delete images, containers, and pods (in bulk).
- Prune images.
- Rename containers.
Website: github.com/marhkb/pods
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Developer: Marcus Behrendt
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Pods is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials
Related Software
| Container Managers | |
|---|---|
| Portainer | Lightweight and easy to use management UI |
| Podman | Tool for managing OCI containers and pods |
| LXD | Manage virtual machines and containers |
| Rancher | Container management platform |
| Mesos | Cluster manager |
| virt-manager | Desktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt |
| Cloudmin | Manage virtual systems running virtualization technology |
| Incus | Modern, secure and powerful system container and virtual machine manager |
| Pods | Manage your Podman containers |
| Cruise | Docker TUI client |
| Stakkr | Docker recompose tool |
| rkt | Application container engine |
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