RFE: Provide a Podman Desktop for Linux, Windows and Mac

Is this a BUG REPORT or FEATURE REQUEST? (leave only one on its own line)

/kind feature

Description

Several requests have been received via Twitter, IRC, email, and other sources, to provide a Podman Desktop application similar to the one that Docker provides.

This Desktop application should look and feel the same as much as possible across all three environments and should provide the ability to run Podman on the host it resides upon. For first-pass versions of Podman Desktop, it may be acceptable to run Podman on a specified Linux host, while running the Desktop on another host, whether it be Linux, macOS or Windows.

We plan to talk further about this at the Thursday September 16, 2021, Podman Community Cabal meeting at 10:00 a.m. EDT (UTC-4) Video Conference. The meeting is open to all and is free to attend.

If you have further requests or ideas for this part of the project, please feel free to reply to this issue and/or attend the meeting. I will reply to this issue with further updates as they arise.

[garrett]

BTW: There’s also a brand-new Podman desktop UI written in Rust for GNOME. It’s called “Pods”:

https://github.com/marhkb/pods

(It’s currently a build-it-yourself project, as it’s so new… As it’s a project built with GNOME Builder, it’s just a matter of checking out the source with GNOME Builder and then clicking the play button to build and run it as a Flatpak locally. As such, it’ll probably be packaged and released on Flathub and eventually make its way into RPM and Deb based repos relatively “soon”.)

[afbjorklund]

The new “Container Desktop” electron application is available at:

https://github.com/containers/desktop – with a v0.0.1 release