Podman Desktop 1.14 Release! π
Podman Desktop 1.14 is now available. Click here to download it!
This release includes:
Podman Desktop 1.8 Release! π
We've got a new release with a ton of seal appeal! This release introduces:
Podman Desktop 1.8 is now available. Click here to download it!
π¦ Podman 4.9.3 includes key fixes for stability and reliability issues reported by our users - especially if you are using Apple silicon architecture. If you've been floundering we highly recommend updating!
Progressively introduced in past releases as an experimental feature, we're ready to expand our capabilities to help developers transition from containers to Kubernetes. In this release we are introducing a new set of features that enable the developers to work with more Kubernetes resources, offering more granular and interactive control over your applications.
Now available in π¦ Podman Desktop is a new Kubernetes Explorer with the ability to work with Deployments, Services, Ingresses, and Routes, in addition to the existing support for Pods. For each of those resources, π¦ Podman Desktop provides real-time information about the status of resources on the cluster. From the top right of this overview page you can also click Apply YAML to create or update resources on the cluster similar to 'kubectl apply -f', and see the current connection status.
Just like with local containers or images, you can click for more details on Summary, Inspect, and Kube (YAML) pages.
See a problem? You can edit and apply changes direct from the Kube tab.
π¦ Podman Desktop continues to bridge the gap and discrepancies to empower developers working with containers with efficient workflows to target Kubernetes from their local workstation. This is all in addition to some of the great features already available:
Configuring and setting up a local environment is now easier with the introduction of a new wizard-based onboarding flow. In this flow developers can pick the different tools that they need, and π¦ Podman Desktop will walk them through the configuration and setup of each of these tools.
The global onboarding flow allows developers to configure Podman, Compose, and kubectl (needed for working with Kind and Minikube or remote Kubernetes environments). This makes the transition to π¦ Podman Desktop becomes simpler, as any needed dependencies are automatically configured.
In this release, we've added a Learning Center on the Dashboardm enabling developers to discover, learn, and expand their knowledge on related topics to containerization. These guides are handy and easily accessible, and cover topics from learning how to containerize an existing application to discovering the latest features of π¦ Podman Desktop and how to best use them.
We continued spent a lot of time adding new extension API to give upcoming extensions more capabilites and even better integration into π¦ Podman Desktop:
We've added over 40 features this release, here are some other highlights:
We've also made some significant progress on implementing light mode:
We squashed a lot of bugs this release, including the following:
Along with this new version of π¦ Podman Desktop the documentation has had the following improvements:
π Weβd like to say a big thank you to everyone who helped make π¦ Podman Desktop even better. In this release we received pull requests from the following people:
The complete list of issues fixed in this release is available here.
Get the latest release from the Downloads section of the website and boost your development journey with Podman Desktop. Additionally, visit the GitHub repository and see how you can help us make Podman Desktop better.
Weβre honored to announce that Podman Desktop has been recognized with the prestigious 2024 DEVIES Award in the category of Containers & Kubernetes. This award is a testimony to the effectiveness of the Podman Desktop team and greater open-source community's efforts to help developers. Podman Desktop increases developer container workflow efficiency as well as provides an easy transition of applications from containers to Kubernetes, the leading open-source container orchestration platform.
βWhile Podman Desktop only went into general availability last year, the community response has been very impressive and incredibly gratifying. We are extremely proud to receive this outstanding recognition which celebrates passion, commitment and innovation for shaping the future of container development backed by the vibrant open-source standards that Red Hat supports. β said StΓ©van Le Meur, Product Manager on the Podman Desktop team.
The DEVIES Awards, presented by DeveloperWeek, recognize the most innovative and impactful tools, platforms, and technologies in the software development community. Podman Desktop's win as the best innovation in Containers & Kubernetes highlights its significant impact on the industry and its role in revolutionizing the way developers build, ship, and run their applications. DEVIES Award winners are selected from hundreds of nominees by the independent, industry-leading DevNetwork Advisory Board.
Weβre excited to be receiving this award on stage at DeveloperWeek 2024, happening on February 21-23, 2024, in Oakland, CA and February 27-29, 2024 (Virtually). In addition, Red Hat developer advocate Cedric Clyburn will be presenting a session on Podman Desktop, titled βGoing from Containers, to Pods, to Kubernetes β Help for Your Developer Environments!β, with a full presentation on Podman, a demonstration of the Podman Desktop experience, and a multi-tier application going from containers, to pods, to finally Kubernetes!
Finally, it would be seal-y to not include and acknowledge that this award was earned by the entire Podman Desktop community of contributors! We also thank the DevNetwork Advisory Board and DeveloperWeek for this honorable award, and for the opportunity to share Podman Desktop's innovations with the greater developer community.
Podman Desktop 1.7 Release! π
We've got a new release with a ton of seal appeal! This release introduces:
Podman Desktop 1.7 is now available. Click here to download it!
π¦ Podman 4.9 includes key fixes for stability and reliability issues reported by our users. If you've been floundering we highly recommend updating!
If you are on a Mac M3, we are aware of a critical issue in Podman and expect to update very soon to pick up this fix: #21353 - Update to new QEMU (based on #1990 - QEMU issue on M3). If you are hitting this problem there is a workaround here and there.
We have spent a lot of time this release adding new extension API to give upcoming extensions more capability and even better integration into π¦ Podman Desktop. We have added support for full page webviews, image badges, icons, a navigation API, and API access to more function from the container engine:
We have been working the last couple months to expand our support for Kubernetes. This support isn't ready to set sail yet, but if you're working with a Kubernetes cluster we'd love to start getting your feedback on the direction!
To 'break the seal' and try it out, go to Settings > Preferences > Kubernetes, and enable the Experimental option:
This will add three new items to the main navigation, allowing you to view Deployments, Services, and Ingress & Routes:
In this release you can click on deployments and services to view additional details (like the Summary, Inspect, and YAML tabs), but not yet for ingresses or routes.
We hope things go swimmingly for you, but please open Github issues to let us know what else you'd like to see.
When building an image you can now chose which platform(s) to build the image for:
We've upgraded the Pods view to use the same table component as images and volumes. This allowing sorting and better column scaling:
Having trouble and want a fresh start? The Troubleshooting page has switched to tabs and there is an option to purge your existing install:
We added over 40 features this release, here are some of the other highlights:
We squashed over 25 bugs this release, including the following:
Labels property #5632Along with this new version of π¦ Podman Desktop the documentation has had the following improvements:
π Weβd like to say a big thank you to everyone (yes, that means you, Anders!) who helped make π¦ Podman Desktop even better. In this release we received pull requests from the following people:
The complete list of issues fixed in this release is available here.
Get the latest release from the Downloads section of the website and boost your development journey with Podman Desktop. Additionally, visit the GitHub repository and see how you can help us make Podman Desktop better.
Podman Desktop 1.6 Release! π
This release introduces:
Podman Desktop 1.6 is now available. Click here to download it!
For developers who need to run Kubernetes locally and reproduce an environment close to production for development and experimentation purposes, Podman Desktop allows users to easily set up that environment on a local machine. There are two extensions providing the capability to configure a open source Kubernetes cluster locally, you can either choose between Kind or Minikube.
The Minikube extension allows you to install Minikube on your workstation and also to setup a Kubernetes cluster locally running in a container! Yes, you read that correctly - in a container similar to how Kind works. The advantage is that it's lighter and faster to start. With Minikube, one of the advantage, is that you can build your images locally with Podman and get them automatically available in your local Kubernetes cluster - which will speed up your turnarounds when you want to test your application. If you want to learn more this, read the following blog post.
Configuring and managing your setup is getting easier with the addition of a new section in the Settings to manage command-line tools. In Podman Desktop, extensions can list command-line tools that are helpful to their users or required to make use of the installed extensions.
There are two command-line tools within Podman Desktop that allows you to view whether they are installed or require an update:
From the settings you can see the command-line tools that are installed, and you can see the version - and when a new version is available, you'll get a small notification to allow you easily update to that version.
We are introducing a new screen available from the Settings which allows you to easily manage your Kubernetes contexts. Podman Desktop was already providing the handy context switcher available from the status bar, but when you get to work with multiple Kubernetes environments, it's not uncommon to end with a big and long list of Kubernetes contexts.
The new Kubernetes Contexts screen allows you to easily see all your registered Kubernetes contexts. You can use the screen to clean up your registered contexts, or set the current (default) context.
A Podman machine is a virtual environment specifically designed to run Podman containers on Mac and Windows. It allows users to manage and operate containerized applications in an isolated and controlled setting. When creating a Podman machine, you configure its settings: memory, CPU(s) and disk size.
We've received the feedback regarding the ability to reconfigure your Podman machine on the go. This is now possible for macOS users, and particularly useful when you start with an environment and need to scale it up based on new needs and containers you would like to run in your Podman environment.
You'll notice we improved the sliders to configure the Podman machine's options - and also introduced a way to enter numeric values directly.
Being able to quickly identify the containers and the pods you are working with is critical when you are iterating on the development of your application. For this reason, we added filters at the top of the lists of Containers and Pods that allow you to easily view all the containers/pods, only those that are running, or only those that are stopped.
The lists of Volumes and Images have improved and are now have the ability to be sorted by the criteria of your choice. You can for example filter images by their size - which can be convenient when you want to clean up your environment.
Podman Desktop is able to work with multiple providers: it could work with multiple container engines and multiple Kubernetes environments too. In order to make it easier to identify the containers and the pods and differentiate them depending on which environment they are running onto, we are introducing a new environment column in the list of Containers and Pods to display a badge.
The list of Pods has been refined to provide easier visibility and access to the containers running within each of them. Each of the containers now have one dot and you can hover each dot to display the info about the container - and if you click on it you'll be able to access the details of the container.
The π¦ Podman Desktop extension API received many improvements, including:
/events if disconnected #4809Coming with this new version of π¦ Podman Desktop, the documentation has been getting the following improvements:
π Weβd like to say a big thank you to everyone who helped to make π¦ Podman Desktop even better. In this release we received pull requests from the following people:
afbjorklund in fix: add website target for running vale, docs: the main lima command is limactl, docs: lima provider cleanup after the merge, docs: make it possible for lima to provide both, fix: don't link to k8s cluster server, feat: show the k8s namespace, docs: show location of lima podman socket
axel7083 in refactoring: item formats from renderer/preferences in separate files, feat: adding optional abort controller to dockerode api
ReadingShades in docs: Added the environment variable set commands of the common windows terminal emulators
jannikbertram in chore: add close button to troubleshooting and help page
singodiyashubham87 in fix: header line height issue on website
itecompro in docs: remove duplicate text from windows troubleshooting
ecrookshanks-rh in fix: added text beside icon for create pods
The complete list of issues fixed in this release is available here.
Get the latest release from the Downloads section of the website and boost your development journey with Podman Desktop. Additionally, visit the GitHub repository and see how you can help us make Podman Desktop better.
As developers we constantly improve and refine our applications. One of the challenges we face is quickly iterating when working with container images and kubernetes deployments/pods.
For example, when we want to try a new image in a kubernetes pod, this image needs to be available on a private/public registry or on the nodes of the kubernetes cluster.
Sometimes we need to call extra commands such as kind load docker-image or minikube cache add <image> or publish the image first to a 3rd party registry.
You'll agree that trying out a new image in a Kubernetes pod should be as seamless as building the image itself.
In this blog post, we will explore the best practice for streamlining the image iteration process in Kubernetes with Podman Desktop.
Podman Desktop 1.5 Release! π
With this release of Podman Desktop, we're introducing a new onboarding feature that we hope will earn your π¦ seal of approval! But wait... there's so much more!
Podman Desktop 1.5 is now available. Click here to download it!
We are introducing a new feature providing guided flows for the initial setup of specific π¦ Podman Desktop extensions. Release 1.5 features two new onboarding flows: Podman and Compose.
To start the Podman onboarding flow, you can start from the dashboard notification by clicking the "Set up" button:
Visit Settings > Resources screen and click the Compose "Setup ..." button in order to start Compose onboarding:
A new, search-driven command palette is now available to enable quick access to various commands available across π¦ Podman Desktop. You can try this new tool out by hitting the F1 key. #4081 && #3979
Kubernetes pods now offer a more comprehensive set of information under the "Summary" tab, including networking, volumes, environment variables, and other key metadata.
When creating a container from the Images list, there's now an option to provide an environment file to set env variables for the new container. #4026 && #4025
The user experience for enabling or disabling Docker compatibility is improved, with a new entry in the Settings > Preferences screen that includes contextual guidance. #4093
The user experience around state changes for containers, pods, and other objects in the UI is improved, with clear status messages and improved animated visual indicator of state changes. #4056
The π¦ Podman Desktop extension API received many improvements, including:
In addition to pushing and listing image from an extension, it's now possible to pull images from a π¦ Podman Desktop extension #4155
The π¦ Podman Desktop extension API has been enhanced with both the ability to list images & networks and the ability to create containers & networks. #4172
π¦ Podman Desktop extensions now have a consistent way to run administrative tasks. #4049
Extensions now have the ability to register a custom Kubernetes config generator. #3970
The ability of extensions to add commands to UI menus has been extended; previously for action menus it was only available in the Image list screen. It is now possible for extensions to add commands to the action menus of items listed on the Containers list screen as well. #3947 & #3963
Extensions have gained the ability to contribute menu items in the UI based on specific conditions. #3959
Enhanced logic for displaying or hiding properties listed under the Settings > Preferences screens is now available. #4159
New support for adding spin animations to icons is now available. #4188
There is a new indeterminate progress bar type available for the task manager; this is meant for providing limited status for actions whose APIs do not provide detailed status information. #4016
For authenticating as admin to perform administrative tasks, π¦ Podman Desktop now provides touchID support for macOS. #4050
Support for connecting to interactive terminals for containers via tty was added. #3900
It's now more clear which container/pod providers will autostart when π¦ Podman Desktop starts. Previously autostart had both a global and a per-provider setting. It has been simplified by removing the global setting. #3840
The "Working with containers" section of the documentation has been reworked and improved. #3951
The disable registry command was not blocking subsequent pulls from disabled registries. This has been corrected. #4183
Some users behind network proxies were unable to complete workflow involving the download of online resources. The mechanism for fetching these resources has been fixed to be proxy compatible to address this issue. #3994
The status of pods running in Kubernetes that are undergoing the deletion process is now accurately reflected in the π¦ Podman Desktop UI. #3877
The image details page always listed the image as being "not used" even when it was. This has been corrected. #3985
Previously, deleting a specific image tag would cause all tags with the same Image ID to be deleted. This has been fixed so only the selected image tag will be deleted. #3837
Could not view the pod details for some remote Kubernetes cluster pods due to an encoding error. #4371
Error logs were being tracked separately from the actions they applied to. This has been addressed for kind cluster creation failure #4427 and Compose installation failure #4407.
For Linux users, π¦ Podman Desktop previously did not appear under the "Development" menu when installed via Flatpak; it appeared under "Utilities." π¦ Podman Desktop now appears under the "Development" menu. #3911
Podman Machine names are no longer prefixed with the "Podman Machine" string. #3878
The initial action state of pods and containers was being displayed as "STARTING" regardless of actual state; this has been corrected. #3889
Resizing the application window no longer makes the last lines of a container's terminal invisible. #3993
An issue with incorrect terminal behavior in response to long lines in the terminal attached to a container has been resolved. #3955
A spacing issue on the run image form has been corrected. #4089
The "podify" icon & button on the Containers list was unusually large in release 1.4. That regression has been corrected in this release. #4122
An error in the instructions for Windows users on migrating from Docker has been corrected. #4157
π Weβd like to say a big thank you to everyone who helped to make π¦ Podman Desktop even better. In this release we received pull requests from the following people:
afbjorklund in #4373 - docs: fix broken links and add lima onboarding, #4372 - docs: clear up lima column on containers page, #4091 - fix: avoid errors with unexpected JSON input, #4098 - docs: Lima onboarding details, and #3854 - fix: check if machine init rootful flag supported
axel7083 in #4061 - feat: adding task progress for kind, #3970 - feat: extension can register custom kube generator, #3959 - feat: add when property to extensions menus, #4016 - feat: indeterminate progress bar, #3963 - fix: ContainerList propagating containers in ComposeActions and PodActions, and #3947 - feat: extend menus capabilities
foxydeveloper in #4157 - docs: Correct windows instructions for migrating from docker
harsh-solanki21 in #4162 - fix: Removed fullstop from summary
shelar1423 in #4221 - chore: document property setting in EXTENSIONS.md
We have a discussion board topic where we have posted known issues with this release. If you run into problems, please check this list before filing a bug - if we already have an issue open for it, it saves you the time and trouble of filing, and there may be a workaround posted in the issue.
The complete list of issues fixed in this release is available here.
Get the latest release from the Downloads section of the website and boost your development journey with Podman Desktop. Additionally, visit the GitHub repository and see how you can help us make Podman Desktop better.
Podman Desktop 1.4 Release! π
This is essentially a bug-fix release to fix various issues in UI, but as usual we also added a few new features.
Volumes pagebash if available.Podman Desktop 1.4 is now available. Click here to download it!
When starting a new container, you can now map a port range between host and container. If the range is not valid between host and container, an error is raised.
When a terminal is opened for a container, it can now be reused after you switched to another part of the Podman Desktop UI.
The Volumes tab now has a Create volume button. The Create volume UI has a single field for the volume name.
When a terminal is opened for a container, if bash is available within the container, it will be used. Otherwise, sh will be used.
π Weβd like to say a big thank you to everyone who helped to make Podman Desktop even better.
A warm welcome to @tomgoren, @Julian, @Gelob and @cedricclyburn who made their first contribution to the project in this release.
The complete list of issues fixed in this release is available here.
Get the latest release from the Downloads section of the website and boost your development journey with Podman Desktop. Additionally, visit the GitHub repository and see how you can help us make Podman Desktop better.
Podman Desktop 1.3 Release! π
This is essentially a bug-fix release to fix various issues in UI, extension engine and featured extensions, but as usual we also added a few new features.
Node's container image field can be used to specify the Kubernetes version used for the control-planedPodman Desktop 1.3 is now available. Click here to download it!
When clicking on the group of containers, you can now view the logs of the entire group of compose containers and don't need to open log for every component individually.
Certain VPN setups or other specialized networking configs will block traffic from the virtual WSL networking device, resulting in the podman WSL backend from being unable to contact systems on the VPN, and potentially losing internet access altogether. The new switch allows you to create a podman VM machine configured to work correctly in mentioned above networking environments.
Compose group Summary tab shows all containers in the group and let you navigate to Details page for specific container.
Compose group Inspect tab shows an array of "container inspect" from docker / podman.
Deploy to kubernetes in compose actions #3299βA button to deploy to kubernetes added to Compose group.
Generate Kube in Compose actions and Kube tab in compose details #3253βGenerate Kube item added to Compose actions and "Kube" tab is now available in Compose details view.
An Extension pack introduced in Extension engine is a way to declare set of extensions to install them all at once.
Extensions now can customize icons for list elements using when clause.
If you click on the arrow icon next to a resource name it will open up a details page (similarly to how clicking on a container in the container list opens up a details page).
Node's container image field added to Create a Kind cluster form #3508βThe new Node's container image field can be used to specify the Kubernetes version used for the control-planed.
Podman Desktop now loads the containers in the backend as described in the vm section of extension descriptor the same way as Docker Desktop does.
This is the initial implementation for the onboarding feature. It only covers a simple onboarding for podman. Check system requirements -> install podman -> yay! Done!
π Weβd like to say a big thank you to everyone who helped to make Podman Desktop even better.
A warm welcome to @rostalan and @axel7083 who made their first contribution to the project in this release.
The complete list of issues fixed in this release is available here.
Get the latest release from the Downloads section of the website and boost your development journey with Podman Desktop. Additionally, visit the GitHub repository and see how you can help us make Podman Desktop better.
Podman Desktop 1.2 Release! π
We're excited to announce the release of Podman Desktop version 1.2.0! This release includes many new features (Kubernetes, Compose and extension support!), bug fixes, and improvements to enhance your container management experience. Here's a summary of the key changes in this release:
open podman-desktop:extension/redhat.openshift-localPodman Desktop 1.2 is now available. Click here to download it!
In the last month we've been addind support for more Compose features. Before you were only able to control a group of containers if they were in a Pod. Now we have added the ability to control a group of Compose containers. You can now start, stop, delete and restart a group of containers launched by either docker-compose or podman-compose.
Stay tuned as we add even more features to Compose! If you have any feedback or feature requests, feel free to open an issue or start a discussion on GitHub.
With Kubernetes context on the status bar, you can switch from one context to another in just a couple of clicks. Easily switch to a different cluster all together. If there are multiple contexts available, you can now click and pick which one to use.
Deployed an image but now you need to rename it / add a new tag? Podman Desktop allows you to edit an image now. Thanks to an awesome contributor @tuckerrc who added the new feature.
Developing an extension for Podman Desktop? Want to view the logs of Podman Desktop as well as ping your container connection? We now have a troubleshooting page!
Click on the lightbulb button on the bottom right to access the page.
Podman Desktop now supports protocol handling when using the terminal! Want to access your favourite extension directly from a script or the terminal? If you type in open podman-desktop:extension/redhat.openshift-local in the terminal, Podman Desktop will automatically load up to the correct extension.
π Weβd like to say a big thank you to everyone who helped to make Podman Desktop even better.
A big shoutout to @afbjorklund, @tuckerrc and @evanshortiss who contributed to this release!
The complete list of issues fixed in this release is available here and here.
Get the latest release from the Downloads section of the website and boost your development journey with Podman Desktop. Additionally, visit the GitHub repository and see how you can help us make Podman Desktop better.
Podman Desktop 1.1 Release! π
This is primarily a bug-fix release to fix a few important issues, but we've managed to squeeze in a few enhancements along the way.
Podman Desktop 1.1 is now available. Click here to download it!
Podman Desktop 1.0 Release! π
We still have many things planned, but with a little polish and a few more bug fixes we felt we've reached a level of maturity and it is now time to declare our 1.0 release.
Thank you to everyone who has been with us on this journey so far! Please keep the feedback coming!
Podman Desktop 1.0 is now available. Click here to download it!
Podman Desktop 0.15 - Cleanliness is next to Podliness!
It has only been two weeks since our last release, but we really wanted to complete a few scenarios, fix a few bugs, and show off several design updates and UI improvements that we have been working on.
Podman Desktop 0.15 is now available. Click here to download it!
In this blog post you will learn to use Podman Desktop to run the Kubernetes documentation example: Deploying PHP Guestbook application with Redis.
On the agenda:
Podman Desktop 0.14 - Our Kind-est release yet!
We have been working on a Kind extension for a while now, and decided it is time to promote it into a release just in time for KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe!
We're especially excited about releasing Kind because it finally shows the full purpose of Podman Desktop: not just local container engines, but Kubernetes too. More importantly, providing tools that allow you to manage both environments and seamlessly move between them.
Some of these features were available in development mode over the last few releases, but since they are now in the release build, we will do a full roundup and talk about all the Kind features.
Podman Desktop 0.14 is now available. Click here to download it!
This release note covers Podman Desktop 0.13 release changes.
Podman Desktop 0.13 is now available. Click here to download it!
This release note covers Podman Desktop 0.12 release changes.
Podman Desktop 0.12 is now available. Click here to download it!
This release note covers Podman Desktop 0.11 release changes.
Podman Desktop 0.11 is now available. Click here to download it!
This release note covers Podman Desktop 0.10 release changes.
Podman Desktop 0.10 is now available. Click here to download it!