Podman

Podman is a daemonless, open-source container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI containers on Linux, supporting both rootful and rootless operation as a drop-in replacement for Docker. The Podman REST API exposes a Docker-compatible surface alongside Libpod-specific endpoints for pods, volumes, networks, secrets, generators, and system management.

Podman publishes 18 APIs on the APIs.io network, including artifacts API, containers API, containers (compat) API, and 15 more. Tagged areas include Cloud-Native, Containers, DevOps, OCI, and Open-Source.

Podman’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, getting-started guide, and 7 more developer resources.

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28.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

AccessFreemium

18 APIs

Cloud-Native Containers DevOps OCI Open-Source

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Composite quality — 28.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 12.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20

Access Clarity 3.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.4 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5

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APIs 18

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Open Collections 20

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Podman Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

SourceCode

SourceCode

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Community

Community

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

License

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: podman
name: Podman
description: Podman is a daemonless, open-source container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI containers on
  Linux, supporting both rootful and rootless operation as a drop-in replacement for Docker. The Podman REST API exposes a
  Docker-compatible surface alongside Libpod-specific endpoints for pods, volumes, networks, secrets, generators, and system
  management.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/podman.png
tags:
- Cloud-Native
- Containers
- DevOps
- OCI
- Open-Source
tags_raw:
- Cloud Native
- Containers
- DevOps
- OCI
- Open Source
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/podman/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: podman:podman-artifacts-api
  name: Podman artifacts API
  description: Actions related to artifacts
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - Artifacts
  tags_raw:
  - artifacts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-artifacts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-containers-api
  name: Podman containers API
  description: Actions related to containers
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - Containers
  tags_raw:
  - containers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-containers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-containers-compat-api
  name: Podman containers (compat) API
  description: Actions related to containers for the compatibility endpoints
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - containers (compat)
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-containers-compat-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-exec-api
  name: Podman exec API
  description: Actions related to exec
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - Exec
  tags_raw:
  - exec
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-exec-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-exec-compat-api
  name: Podman exec (compat) API
  description: Actions related to exec for the compatibility endpoints
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - exec (compat)
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-exec-compat-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-images-api
  name: Podman images API
  description: Actions related to images
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - Image
  tags_raw:
  - images
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-images-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-images-compat-api
  name: Podman images (compat) API
  description: Actions related to images for the compatibility endpoints
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - images (compat)
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-images-compat-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-manifests-api
  name: Podman manifests API
  description: Actions related to manifests
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - Manifests
  tags_raw:
  - manifests
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-manifests-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-networks-api
  name: Podman networks API
  description: Actions related to networks
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - Networks
  tags_raw:
  - networks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-networks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-networks-compat-api
  name: Podman networks (compat) API
  description: Actions related to networks for the compatibility endpoints
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - networks (compat)
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-networks-compat-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-pods-api
  name: Podman pods API
  description: Actions related to pods
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - Pods
  tags_raw:
  - pods
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-pods-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-quadlets-api
  name: Podman quadlets API
  description: The quadlets API from Podman — 5 operation(s) for quadlets.
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - quadlets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-quadlets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-secrets-api
  name: Podman secrets API
  description: Actions related to secrets
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - Secrets
  tags_raw:
  - secrets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-secrets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-secrets-compat-api
  name: Podman secrets (compat) API
  description: Actions related to secrets for the compatibility endpoints
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - secrets (compat)
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-secrets-compat-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-system-api
  name: Podman system API
  description: Actions related to Podman engine
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - System
  tags_raw:
  - system
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-system-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-system-compat-api
  name: Podman system (compat) API
  description: Actions related to Podman and compatibility engines
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - system (compat)
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-system-compat-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-volumes-api
  name: Podman volumes API
  description: Actions related to volumes
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - Volumes
  tags_raw:
  - volumes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-volumes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-volumes-compat-api
  name: Podman volumes (compat) API
  description: Actions related to volumes for the compatibility endpoints
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - volumes (compat)
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-volumes-compat-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
common:
- type: License
  name: Apache-2.0
  url: https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/podman-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/podman-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://podman.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.podman.io/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/containers
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/containers/podman
- type: Blog
  url: https://podman.io/blogs/
- type: Community
  url: https://podman.io/community/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://podman.io/get-started
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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