[rmolina]

We haven't had enough cycles to look at Podman in details (yet), but my understanding is that Podman and Docker serve similar purposes: they are high-level runtimes. (i'm obviating important nuances though and i'm not podman expert).

Sysbox, on the other hand, acts as a low-level runtime (same as runc), so we could potentially integrate with Podman too. In fact, we could _potentially_ integrate with anything that speaks OCI spec.

Having said that, we are not there yet, as for example sysbox wouldn't work with Podman in rootless mode right now; it should work in regular mode though, but we haven't tried it yet. If we accomplish this, it would allow podman to launch a larger set of applications too, same as we are doing for Docker.

[jdoss]

Podman can use runc or their own runtime crun https://github.com/containers/crun so it should be able to work without much drama :tm:

[rmolina]

Interesting. Thanks @jdoss!