pods vs BoxBuddy

pods

Keep track of your podman containers (by marhkb)

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BoxBuddy

An Unofficial GUI for managing multiple distros via Distrobox (by Dvlv)

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pods		BoxBuddy
	Project
9	Mentions	2
681	Stars	26
-	Growth	-
9.2	Activity	6.3
4 days ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
Rust	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	MIT License

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pods

Posts with mentions or reviews of pods. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-03.

Podman Desktop v1.5 with Compose onboarding and enhanced Kubernetes pod data
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Nov 2023

If you're using Linux (especially with Gnome), I can highly recommend Pods[1] as a desktop client for Podman. It's much less cluttered than Podman Desktop, but still supports most of its features.
[1] https://github.com/marhkb/pods#readme
Podman Desktop 1.0: Local container development made easy
3 projects | /r/linux | 23 May 2023
Rediscovering GNOME
6 projects | /r/gnome | 22 Apr 2023

Pods is a GTK4 frontend for Podman. I installed it from Arch AUR. But I think it also available as a Flatpak.
Do you think Silverblue will replace today’s Workstation in the future?
4 projects | /r/Fedora | 30 Nov 2022
Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop
4 projects | /r/linux | 10 Nov 2022

13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Nov 2022
Disparity in design between GNOME apps
2 projects | /r/gnome | 24 Sep 2022

Pods GUI frontend for podman container.
Toolbx Tuner: UI-Concept of toolbx management application, feedback wanted.
3 projects | /r/Fedora | 18 Apr 2022

Check out Symphony Pods that was featured in This week in Gnome 35
gtk container manager
1 project | /r/gnome | 31 Mar 2022

There is Symphony to manage Podman, but I imagine with some tinkering it can be made to work with Docker.

BoxBuddy

Posts with mentions or reviews of BoxBuddy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-23.

Am i missing something? Or am i just dumb?
1 project | /r/distrobox | 8 Jun 2023
Podman Desktop 1.0: Local container development made easy
3 projects | /r/linux | 23 May 2023

There is a fairly new frontend for Distrobox, it's called Box Buddy, you could try that

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pods and BoxBuddy you can also consider the following projects:

Podman Desktop - Podman Desktop - A graphical tool for developing on containers and Kubernetes

flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:

toolbox-tuner - Graphical application intended for use on Fedora Silverblue to manage containertoolbx.org containers.

Atoms - Easily manage Linux Chroot(s) and Containers with Atoms.

silverblue-tools - Collection of scripts for silverblue related technologies

podman-api-rs - Rust interface to Podman (libpod).

container-selinux - SELinux policy files for Container Runtimes

Mousai - Identify songs in seconds

crc - CRC is a tool to help you run containers. It manages a local OpenShift 4.x cluster, Microshift or a Podman VM optimized for testing and development purposes

container-mailer - Simple container image to send emails via SMTP

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