# Podman

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/podman/  
**Website:** https://podman.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 18

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.

## Kin Score — 28.7 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 28.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 48.1 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 21.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (18)

- **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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Podman Agentic Access** — 193 operations · 115 acting · 8 human-in-the-loop

## Security (1)

- **Podman Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Podman Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Cloud-Native, Containers, DevOps, OCI, Open-Source

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/podman/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.