Stevan Le Meur

Containers and Kubernetes made easy: Deep dive into Podman Desktop and new AI capabilities

What if local development mirrored production Kubernetes perfectly? See how Podman Desktop bridges the gap, making container management simple, secure, and now AI-ready.

Containers and Kubernetes made easy: Deep dive into Podman Desktop and new AI capabilities
#1about 2 minutes

Podman Desktop's journey to one million downloads

The tool has grown significantly based on community feedback, introducing new capabilities with each monthly release.

#2about 5 minutes

Core benefits of the Podman container engine

Podman provides a fast, secure, and daemonless architecture that enables rootless containers by default for a smaller attack surface.

#3about 4 minutes

Bridging local development and production with Podman Desktop

Podman Desktop simplifies the developer workflow by reducing the inconsistencies between local container setups and production Kubernetes environments.

#4about 7 minutes

Building and running a multi-container application

A live demo shows how to use the graphical interface to build container images from a Dockerfile and run them locally.

#5about 2 minutes

Grouping containers into pods for Kubernetes development

Learn how to group related containers into a pod to simplify networking and then deploy that pod to a local Kubernetes cluster.

#6about 3 minutes

Introducing Podman AI Lab for generative AI development

This new extension helps developers build, test, and run generative AI applications locally in containers with an intuitive interface.

#7about 6 minutes

Demo of a RAG application with Podman AI Lab

See how to use a pre-built recipe to run a local LLM with retrieval-augmented generation to answer questions using new information.

#8about 1 minute

Enabling GPU acceleration for local AI models

Experimental features are now available to provide GPU passthrough for containers on Mac and Windows, accelerating local model inference.

#9about 2 minutes

Future roadmap and getting started resources

The roadmap includes richer AI recipes and more language support, and you can get started with the open-source project via its website.

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