tags : Containers, Docker, OCI Ecosystem
Alternative to Docker and hence does not use containerd
Creates containers without daemon, hence plays nice w systemd.
So you can create host systemd unit files for container runs nicely :) - See podman-generate-systemd — Podman documentation
Additionally, allows init systems inside the container by design. Unlike docker where the philosophy is not to have an init system.
Will not work as a container engine for Kubernetes, instead suggest using CRI-O. As mentioned in OCI Ecosystem