r/podman is a subreddit with 11k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses podman, container, pod, rootless, and network.
A community for users, developers and people interested in Podman, Buildah, Skopeo and all other projects that use libpod.
Popular Themes in r/podman
#1
Solution Requests
: "Managing Podman Instances Remotely"
12 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "How to: High speed Wireguard with Rootless Podman"
6 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "High CPU usage with Pasta"
2 posts
#4
Self-Promotion
: "I built lzpody - a lightweight Podman TUI inspired by lazydocker"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/podman
#1
Podman
: "Introducing Podman v6.0.0"
35 posts
#2
Container
: "Release v6.1.0 · podman-Container-tools/podman"
20 posts
#3
Pod
: "Release v6.1.0 · Podman-container-tools/Podman"
13 posts
#4
Rootless
: "I cannot properly express my unending gratitude to whoever implemented `Rootless_port_forwarder = "pasta"`"
9 posts
#5
Network
: "GitHub - upmcplanetracker/podman-ip-inspector: Podman Network IP inspector: list containers, IPs, subnets with colors and tree view"
4 posts
#6
Version
: "Update: Podman Version Updater for Ubuntu 26.04 (Now supports Podman 6.x & dependency upgrades in one unified script), plus a shameless plug for other Podman related scripts"
3 posts
#7
Upgrade
: "podman 6.0.0 is out. Has anyone updated from 5.7.x or 5.8.x yet?"
2 posts
#8
Runtime
: "Podman Configuration: Registries, Runtimes and Containers Without a Restart"
2 posts
#9
Server
: "Podman NetBird Server quadlet?"
2 posts
#10
Docker
: "Chainguard alternative for a rootless podman setup, compared it against Docker Hardened Images and Minimus."
2 posts
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Yearly
+3k members(35.1%)
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Last updated: October 1, 2026