Podman commands versus Docker commands

As we saw in the previous section, as well as in Chapter 2, Comparing Podman and Docker, the Podman CLI is based on the Docker CLI. However, because Podman does not require a runtime daemon to work, some of the Docker commands may not be directly available or they could require some workarounds.

The command list is exceptionally long, so the following table only specifies a few:

As you can see, the command's name is the same as comparing the docker command with the podman command. However, even though the name is the same, due to architectural differences between Podman and Docker, some features or behaviors could be different.

Behavioral differences between Podman and Docker

The following commands were intentionally implemented in another way by the Podman development team:

• podman volume create: This command will fail if the volume already exists. In Docker, this command is idempotent, which means...