lima VS podman

Compare lima vs podman and see what are their differences.

lima

Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers (by lima-vm)

podman

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods. (by containers)
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lima podman
105 358
13,806 21,316
2.4% 3.3%
9.7 10.0
7 days ago 4 days ago
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Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

lima

Posts with mentions or reviews of lima. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.

podman

Posts with mentions or reviews of podman. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-26.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lima and podman you can also consider the following projects:

colima - Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

Portainer - Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

multipass - Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances

kaniko - Build Container Images In Kubernetes

rancher - Complete container management platform

Docker-OSX - Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers.

nerdctl - contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...

UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS

Moby - The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems

containerd - An open and reliable container runtime

minikube - Run Kubernetes locally

nerdctl - contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...