Podman is an open-source container management tool that allows developers to build, run, and manage containers.

Unlike Docker, it supports rootless containers for improved security and is fully compatible with standards from the Open Container Initiative or OCI.

Brent Boddy is a senior principal software engineer at Red Hat, where he works on Podman.

In this episode, Brent joins the show to talk about the project.

This episode of Software Engineering Daily is hosted by Jordy Mon Companies.

Check the show notes for more information on Jordy's work and where to find him. Hi Brent, welcome to software engineer in Daily.

Ah, welcome.

I appreciate that.

So why did you introduce yourself?

Yeah, my name is Brent Bouti and I currently work for Red Hat as the architect of Podman.

And I've been with Red Hat about 11 years. Prior to that, I was with IBM for 17 and change.

And I'm located in the United States in the great state of Minnesota.

Beautiful state. So we're here to talk about

potman, as you mentioned in your part of the title, but there is a GitHub Containers organization,

GitHub.com forward slash containers that contains no pen intended there, a few projects. And you probably

don't maintain and certainly are not the architect of the others,

but can you give us a sense of what is the overarching theme of all the projects hosted within the

containers org? The obvious answer here is they have something to do with containers.

Many of them are maybe library oriented that are brought into larger applications that you might know, but you might not know the libraries.

We do prefer some affiliation with OCI and OCI standards, and there's certainly outliers on those kinds of ideas, but that's the general theme throughout container related,

OCI related, and either they're going to be small applications or libraries that build up much

larger applications. What is the open containerer initiative? Could you describe what the standards

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