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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 6 more developer resources.

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37.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
AccessFreemium
18 APIs
Cloud NativeContainersDevOpsOCIOpen Source

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
Composite quality — 37.6/100 · thin
Contract Quality 12.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
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
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APIs 18

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

Podman artifacts API

Actions related to artifacts

Podman containers API

Actions related to containers

Podman containers (compat) API

Actions related to containers for the compatibility endpoints

Podman exec API

Actions related to exec

Podman exec (compat) API

Actions related to exec for the compatibility endpoints

Podman images API

Actions related to images

Podman images (compat) API

Actions related to images for the compatibility endpoints

Podman manifests API

Actions related to manifests

Podman networks API

Actions related to networks

Podman networks (compat) API

Actions related to networks for the compatibility endpoints

Podman pods API

Actions related to pods

Podman quadlets API

The quadlets API from Podman — 5 operation(s) for quadlets.

Podman secrets API

Actions related to secrets

Podman secrets (compat) API

Actions related to secrets for the compatibility endpoints

Podman system API

Actions related to Podman engine

Podman system (compat) API

Actions related to Podman and compatibility engines

Podman volumes API

Actions related to volumes

Podman volumes (compat) API

Actions related to volumes for the compatibility endpoints

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Open Collections 1

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

supports a RESTful API for the Libpod library

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Podman Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

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.

Podman Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Podman Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Podman Agentic Access

193 operations · 115 acting · 8 human-in-the-loop

193 operations · 115 acting

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

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/podman/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
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
  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
  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
  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:
  - 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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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: 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