storage

If $PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE = go, you might be looking for https://github.com/containers/storage which can create layers, images, and so on. I think `Store` is the main entry: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/containers/storage#Store Buildah uses it: https://github.com/containers/buildah/blob/main/go.mod#L27C2... Edit: buildkit seems to be the same, used by docker, but needs a daemon?

Docker is properly attributed to, see https://github.com/containers/storage/blob/a4cc7aa79e050c976... I think OP wanted to say that Podman hates Docker what is not I feel when I'm interacting with the community there. People who use Podman do it because of it's additional features that Docker does not have, like starting an Container from a rootfs or mounting the currect directory in a container using "." as path. Also building containers using a shellscript is supported. No need to learn the Dockerfile syntax. There are lot of small things that make Podman better integrated into Linux systems: running the container via systemd is a lot more intuitive.

If I understand correctly support for native rootless mounts is currently under development: https://github.com/containers/storage/pull/816 The functionality requires Linux kernel 5.11 (soon to be released)

The key is that libkrun (https://github.com/containers/libkrun), the library that krunvm uses for running the VMs, as recently integrated support for Hypervisor.framework on ARM64, in addition to KVM. As for buildah, the Homebrew repo contains a build that includes this PR (https://github.com/containers/storage/pull/811).