Hi,

Podman Desktop team here. 🦭 

Just a couple of months ago, we released Podman Desktop 1.0 as generally available for Mac, Windows and Linux. (More on that below.) We're now kicking off our early adopter program, which you applied to. We'd like to invite you to join the Podman Desktop community!

What does it mean to be an early adopter?
Many of you mentioned that you enjoy using Podman Desktop and would like to help us to make it even better. As an early adopter, you will have the opportunity to contribute by joining discussions and providing constructive feedback on Podman Desktop's upcoming features and plans before they are released. This will involve receiving occasional emails from us, when we have fresh things to share with you.

We need your help right now!

These are five things we're working on right now that we would love your ideas and feedback on:

1. Easily create container-based applications via compose syntax - Take a look at early UI mockups for UX improvements to our compose capability, and let us know what you think!
   
   

2. Inspect objects in Kubernetes deployment environments - We will expand our Kubernetes (K8s) capabilities with a new K8s dashboard and additional K8s objects support so you can better understand and compare K8s environments. Review our early ideas and tell us what would help you.
   
   

3. Install and configure additional features more easily - Check out our designs for an upcoming onboarding feature to provide guided walkthroughs to help you install and configure new container capabilities.
   
   

4. Find answers to questions quickly and easily when stuck - Podman Desktop's documentation is expanded and improved; what are we missing? What would you like to see us cover? Let us know.
   
   

What's New in Podman Desktop

Since its inception, Podman Desktop has focused on providing a user-friendly interface for managing and working with containers, as well as providing simple predictability when deploying those containers on Kubernetes environments. Here's what Podman Desktop 1.0 has to offer:

• Container engine installation and updates - Podman Desktop takes care of installing your container engines and keeping them up-to-date on your local developer environment, providing you easy GUI-based configuration.
  
  

• Forget rewriting your Docker tools to work with Podman -  Simply configure the compatibility mode with Docker, which maps the Docker socket to Podman, enabling all your tools to just work with Podman.
  
  

• Multiple container engines, one interface -  Podman also provides compatibility with Lima and Docker.
  
  

• Push-button container deployment to Kubernetes - Native Kubernetes support provides a simple transition for containers to Kubernetes. Spin up a  local Kubernetes cluster with Kind or miniKube, play Kubernetes YAML on those environments, or generate Kubernetes YAML from pods and containers you've already created. Easily create pods and generate Kubernetes yaml with the click of a button.
  
  

• Extensible functionality - Choose only the container engines, Kubernetes providers, and functionality you want to use. We recently introduced two extensions related to working with Red Hat OpenShift, and we have a community-contributed minikube extension!
  
  

Sorry, that’s a long summary of everything we have been working on - but we hope that gets you as excited as we are! 

Get started with the Podman Desktop community

We encourage you to actively engage in discussions. Your fresh perspective as an early adopter helps us notice overlooked things.
 

• Join Podman Desktop Discussions in GitHub: Connect with other community members in our community discussions. Share your ideas, ask questions, and let us know if something doesn’t make sense. Especially if you are new to the community, your fresh perspective helps us notice overlooked things.

• Review the documentation for possible improvements: If you come across any missing information or you believe Podman Desktop should be included in other open source projects' documentation, start a discussion thread.

• Spread the word: Help us grow our open source community by sharing your positive experiences and tutorials on social media and relevant forums. 

Thanks a lot for your interest in Podman Desktop! Your support really means a lot to us and we are looking forward to interacting more with you, along with building the tool!  If you have any questions or you are new to open source contributions and need help, please don't hesitate to reach out to the team via email.

Thanks again!
Máirín Duffy on behalf of the Podman Desktop team 🦭

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