Best Steps To Install Podman on Ubuntu 22.04

In this guide, you will learn to Install Podman on Ubuntu 22.04. Podman is an open-source, Linux-native tool designed to develop, manage, and run containers and pods under the Open Container Initiative (OCI) standards. Presented as a user-friendly container orchestrator developed by Red Hat, Podman is the default container engine in RedHat 8 and CentOS 8.

It is one of a set of command-line tools designed to handle different tasks of the containerization process, that can work as a modular framework.

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Steps To Install Podman on Ubuntu 22.04

Steps To Install Podman on Ubuntu 22.04

To complete this guide, you must log in to your server as a non-root user with sudo privileges. To do this, you can follow our guide on Initial Server Setup with Ubuntu 22.04.

Set up Podman on Ubuntu 20.04

By default, Podman packages aren’t available in the default Ubuntu 22.04 repository. So you need to manually add the Podman repository.

First, update and upgrade your local package index with the following command:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

Add Podman Repository

Then, use the following command to add the Podman repository:

echo "deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/kubic:/libcontainers:/stable/xUbuntu_22.04/ /" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devel:kubic:libcontainers:stable.list

Add Podman GPG Key

Next, run the command below to add the GPG key:

curl -L "https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/kubic:/libcontainers:/stable/xUbuntu_22.04/Release.key" | sudo apt-key add -

Run the system update again:

sudo apt update

Install Podman

Finally, use the command below to install Podman:

sudo apt install podman -y

Verify your installation by checking its version:

podman -v

Output
podman version 3.4.4

To get full information about Podman, you can use:

podman info

Output
host:
arch: amd64
buildahVersion: 1.23.1
cgroupControllers:
 - cpuset
  - cpu
  - cpuacct
  - blkio
  - memory
  - devices
  - freezer
....

How To Use Podman on Ubuntu 22.04

Now that you have learned to Install Podman on Ubuntu 22.04, let’s see its basic usage.

Search and pull images with Podman

Just like Docker, you can use the Podman command line to search Images but from different repositories.

For example, if you want to install a Ubuntu container using Podman, then you can search what are the images available through the different repositories.

podman search ubuntu

Then, you can download and pull images with the following command:

podman pull ubuntu

List all Images with Podman

If you have downloaded multiple images and now want to see what are the available images on your system, you can list all of them using the following command:

podman images

In my case:

Output
REPOSITORY                TAG         IMAGE ID      CREATED      SIZE
docker.io/library/ubuntu  latest      6b7dfa7e8fdb  4 weeks ago  80.3 MB

Create a Container with Podman

Once you have the image of the application that you want, you can create a container with it. Here we have downloaded the Ubuntu image with Podman. Now we will show how to use it to create a container using Ubuntu Image.

To do this, you can use the following command: