diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 89a36a5be..5f5a2abbb 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 ansible>=2.4.0,<2.8.0         # GPLv3
 docker>=4.0                   # Apache-2.0
+podman>=1.6.0                 # Apache-2.0
 fixtures>=3.0.0               # Apache-2.0/BSD
 keystoneauth1>=3.4.0          # Apache-2.0
 Jinja2>=2.8.0                 # BSD
diff --git a/tobiko/podman/__init__.py b/tobiko/podman/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f5dca0307
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tobiko/podman/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Red Hat, Inc.
+#
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+from tobiko.podman import _client
+from tobiko.podman import _shell
+from tobiko.podman import _exception
+
+
+PodmanClientFixture = _client.PodmanClientFixture
+get_podman_client = _client.get_podman_client
+list_podman_containers = _client.list_podman_containers
+podman_client = _client.podman_client
+
+discover_podman_socket = _shell.discover_podman_socket
+is_podman_running = _shell.is_podman_running
+
+PodmanError = _exception.PodmanError
+PodmanSocketNotFoundError = _exception.PodmanSocketNotFoundError
diff --git a/tobiko/podman/_client.py b/tobiko/podman/_client.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4a377450f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tobiko/podman/_client.py
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Red Hat, Inc.
+#
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+import six
+
+import podman
+
+import tobiko
+from tobiko.podman import _exception
+from tobiko.podman import _shell
+from tobiko.shell import ssh
+
+
+def get_podman_client(ssh_client=None):
+    return PodmanClientFixture(ssh_client=ssh_client)
+
+
+def list_podman_containers(client=None, **kwargs):
+    try:
+        containers = podman_client(client).containers.list(**kwargs)
+    except _exception.PodmanSocketNotFoundError:
+        return tobiko.Selection()
+    else:
+        return tobiko.select(containers)
+
+
+def podman_client(obj=None):
+    if obj is None:
+        obj = get_podman_client()
+    if tobiko.is_fixture(obj):
+        obj = tobiko.setup_fixture(obj).client
+    if isinstance(obj, podman.Client):
+        return obj
+    raise TypeError('Cannot obtain a Podman client from {!r}'.format(obj))
+
+
+class PodmanClientFixture(tobiko.SharedFixture):
+
+    client = None
+    ssh_client = None
+
+    def __init__(self, ssh_client=None):
+        if six.PY2:
+            raise _exception.PodmanError(
+                "Podman isn't compatible with python 2.7")
+        super(PodmanClientFixture, self).__init__()
+        if ssh_client:
+            self.ssh_client = ssh_client
+
+    def setup_fixture(self):
+        self.setup_ssh_client()
+        self.setup_client()
+
+    def setup_ssh_client(self):
+        ssh_client = self.ssh_client
+        if ssh_client is None:
+            self.ssh_client = ssh_client = ssh.ssh_proxy_client() or False
+            if ssh_client:
+                tobiko.setup_fixture(ssh_client)
+        return ssh_client
+
+    def setup_client(self):
+        client = self.client
+        if client is None:
+            self.client = client = self.create_client()
+        return client
+
+    def create_client(self):
+        uri = self.discover_podman_socket()
+        if self.ssh_client:
+            uri = ssh.get_port_forward_url(ssh_client=self.ssh_client, url=uri)
+        client = podman.Client(uri=uri)
+        client.system.ping()
+        return client
+
+    def connect(self):
+        return tobiko.setup_fixture(self).client
+
+    def discover_podman_socket(self):
+        return _shell.discover_podman_socket(ssh_client=self.ssh_client)
diff --git a/tobiko/podman/_exception.py b/tobiko/podman/_exception.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fb2b1443c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tobiko/podman/_exception.py
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Red Hat, Inc.
+#
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+import tobiko
+
+
+class PodmanError(tobiko.TobikoException):
+    message = '{error!}'
+
+
+class PodmanSocketNotFoundError(tobiko.TobikoException):
+    message = 'Socket not found: {details}'
diff --git a/tobiko/podman/_shell.py b/tobiko/podman/_shell.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..63397a508
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tobiko/podman/_shell.py
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Red Hat, Inc.
+#
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+from tobiko.podman import _exception
+from tobiko.shell import sh
+
+
+def discover_podman_socket(**execute_params):
+    cmd = "systemctl list-sockets | grep podman | awk '{print $1}'"
+    result = sh.execute(cmd, stdin=False, stdout=True, stderr=True,
+                        expect_exit_status=None, **execute_params)
+    if result.exit_status or not result.stdout:
+        raise _exception.PodmanSocketNotFoundError(details=result.stderr)
+    try:
+        socket = result.stdout.splitlines()[0]
+    except IndexError:
+        raise _exception.PodmanSocketNotFoundError(details=result.stderr)
+    if '0 sockets listed' in socket:
+        raise _exception.PodmanSocketNotFoundError(details=socket)
+    return socket
+
+
+def is_podman_running(ssh_client=None, **execute_params):
+    try:
+        discover_podman_socket(ssh_client=ssh_client, **execute_params)
+    except _exception.PodmanSocketNotFoundError:
+        return False
+    else:
+        return True
diff --git a/tobiko/podman/config.py b/tobiko/podman/config.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7af0b1e60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tobiko/podman/config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Red Hat, Inc.
+#
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+from __future__ import absolute_import
diff --git a/tobiko/tests/functional/podman/__init__.py b/tobiko/tests/functional/podman/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/tobiko/tests/functional/podman/test_client.py b/tobiko/tests/functional/podman/test_client.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..077b97c9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tobiko/tests/functional/podman/test_client.py
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Red Hat, Inc.
+#
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+import testtools
+
+import six
+
+# We need to ignore this code under py2
+# it's not compatible and parser will failed even if we use
+# the `unittest.skipIf` decorator, because during the test discovery
+# stestr and unittest will load this test
+# module before running it and it will load podman
+# too which isn't compatible in version leather than python 3
+# Also the varlink mock module isn't compatible with py27, is using
+# annotations syntaxe to generate varlink interface for the mocked service
+# and it will raise related exceptions too.
+# For all these reasons we can't run podman tests under a python 2 environment
+if six.PY3:
+    from podman import client as podman_client
+    from podman.libs import containers
+
+    from tobiko import podman
+    from tobiko.openstack import topology
+
+    class PodmanClientTest(testtools.TestCase):
+
+        ssh_client = None
+
+        def setUp(self):
+            super(PodmanClientTest, self).setUp()
+            for node in topology.list_openstack_nodes(group='controller'):
+                self.ssh_client = ssh_client = node.ssh_client
+                break
+            else:
+                self.skip('Any controller node found from OpenStack topology')
+
+            if not podman.is_podman_running(ssh_client=ssh_client):
+                self.skip('Podman server is not running')
+
+        def test_get_podman_client(self):
+            client = podman.get_podman_client(ssh_client=self.ssh_client)
+            self.assertIsInstance(client, podman.PodmanClientFixture)
+
+        def test_connect_podman_client(self):
+            client = podman.get_podman_client(
+                ssh_client=self.ssh_client).connect()
+            podman_clients_valid_types = (
+                podman_client.LocalClient,
+                podman_client.RemoteClient
+            )
+            self.assertIsInstance(client, podman_clients_valid_types)
+            client.ping()
+
+        def test_list_podman_containers(self):
+            for container in podman.list_podman_containers(
+                    ssh_client=self.ssh_client):
+                self.assertIsInstance(container, containers.Container)
diff --git a/tobiko/tests/unit/__init__.py b/tobiko/tests/unit/__init__.py
index 22c7b6332..dbd13e4a2 100644
--- a/tobiko/tests/unit/__init__.py
+++ b/tobiko/tests/unit/__init__.py
@@ -13,11 +13,17 @@
 #    under the License.
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 
+import six
+
 from tobiko.tests.unit import _case
 from tobiko.tests.unit import _patch
 
 
 TobikoUnitTest = _case.TobikoUnitTest
 
+if six.PY3:
+    from tobiko.tests.unit.podman import _mocked_service
+    mocked_service = _mocked_service
+
 PatchFixture = _patch.PatchFixture
 PatchMixin = _patch.PatchMixin
diff --git a/tobiko/tests/unit/podman/__init__.py b/tobiko/tests/unit/podman/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/tobiko/tests/unit/podman/_mocked_service.py b/tobiko/tests/unit/podman/_mocked_service.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..233839d5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tobiko/tests/unit/podman/_mocked_service.py
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+types = """
+type ListPodData (
+    id: string,
+    name: string,
+    createdat: string,
+    cgroup: string,
+    status: string,
+    labels: [string]string,
+    numberofcontainers: string,
+    containersinfo: []ListPodContainerInfo
+)
+type ListPodContainerInfo (
+    name: string,
+    id: string,
+    status: string
+)
+"""
+
+
+class ServicePod:
+
+    def StartPod(self, name: str) -> str:
+        """return pod"""
+        return {  # type: ignore
+            "pod": "135d71b9495f7c3967f536edad57750bfd"
+                   "b569336cd107d8aabab45565ffcfb6",
+            "name": name
+        }
+
+    def GetPod(self, name: str) -> str:
+        """return pod: ListPodData"""
+        return {  # type: ignore
+            "pod": {
+                "cgroup": "machine.slice",
+                "containersinfo": [
+                  {
+                    "id": "1840835294cf076a822e4e12ba4152411f131"
+                          "bd869e7f6a4e8b16df9b0ea5c7f",
+                    "name": "1840835294cf-infra",
+                    "status": "running"
+                  },
+                  {
+                    "id": "49a5cce72093a5ca47c6de86f10ad7bb36391e2"
+                          "d89cef765f807e460865a0ec6",
+                    "name": "upbeat_murdock",
+                    "status": "running"
+                  }
+                ],
+                "createdat": "2018-12-07 13:10:15.014139258 -0600 CST",
+                "id": "135d71b9495f7c3967f536edad57750bfdb569336cd"
+                      "107d8aabab45565ffcfb6",
+                "name": name,
+                "numberofcontainers": "2",
+                "status": "Running"
+            }
+        }
+
+    def GetVersion(self) -> str:
+        """return version"""
+        return {"version": "testing"}  # type: ignore
diff --git a/tobiko/tests/unit/podman/test_client.py b/tobiko/tests/unit/podman/test_client.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c2d5d782e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tobiko/tests/unit/podman/test_client.py
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# Copyright 2018 Red Hat
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+import mock
+import six
+
+# We need to ignore this code under py2
+# it's not compatible and parser will failed even if we use
+# the `unittest.skipIf` decorator, because during the test discovery
+# stestr and unittest will load this test
+# module before running it and it will load podman
+# too which isn't compatible in version leather than python 3
+# Also the varlink mock module isn't compatible with py27, is using
+# annotations syntaxe to generate varlink interface for the mocked service
+# and it will raise related exceptions too.
+# For all these reasons we can't run podman tests under a python 2 environment
+if six.PY3:
+    from tobiko import podman
+    from tobiko.tests import unit
+
+    from varlink import mock as varlink_mock
+
+    class TestPodmanClient(unit.TobikoUnitTest):
+
+        @varlink_mock.mockedservice(
+            fake_service=unit.mocked_service.ServicePod,
+            fake_types=unit.mocked_service.types,
+            name='io.podman',
+            address='unix:@podmantests'
+        )
+        @mock.patch(
+            'tobiko.podman._client.PodmanClientFixture.discover_podman_socket'
+        )
+        def test_init(self, mocked_discover_podman_socket):
+            mocked_discover_podman_socket.return_value = 'unix:@podmantests'
+            client = podman.get_podman_client().connect()
+            pods = client.pods.get('135d71b9495f')
+            self.assertEqual(pods["numberofcontainers"], "2")
diff --git a/tobiko/tests/unit/podman/test_shell.py b/tobiko/tests/unit/podman/test_shell.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0ca7a01bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tobiko/tests/unit/podman/test_shell.py
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+# Copyright 2018 Red Hat
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+import mock
+
+import six
+
+# We need to ignore this code under py2
+# it's not compatible and parser will failed even if we use
+# the `unittest.skipIf` decorator, because during the test discovery
+# stestr and unittest will load this test
+# module before running it and it will load podman
+# too which isn't compatible in version leather than python 3
+# Also the varlink mock module isn't compatible with py27, is using
+# annotations syntaxe to generate varlink interface for the mocked service
+# and it will raise related exceptions too.
+# For all these reasons we can't run podman tests under a python 2 environment
+if six.PY3:
+    from tobiko import podman
+    from tobiko.tests import unit
+
+    class TestShell(unit.TobikoUnitTest):
+
+        @mock.patch('tobiko.shell.sh.execute')
+        def test_discover_podman_socket(self, mock_execute):
+            class FakeProcess:
+                exit_status = 0
+                stdout = '/run/podman/io.podman'
+                stderr = ''
+            mock_execute.return_value = FakeProcess()
+            self.assertEqual(
+                podman.discover_podman_socket(),
+                '/run/podman/io.podman'
+            )
+
+        @mock.patch('tobiko.shell.sh.execute')
+        def test_discover_podman_socket_none_result(self, mock_execute):
+            class FakeProcess:
+                exit_status = 1
+                stdout = ''
+                stderr = 'boom'
+            mock_execute.return_value = FakeProcess()
+            self.assertRaises(
+                podman.PodmanSocketNotFoundError,
+                podman.discover_podman_socket
+            )
+
+        @mock.patch('tobiko.shell.sh.execute')
+        def test_discover_podman_socket_with_exit_code(self, mock_execute):
+            class FakeProcess:
+                exit_status = 0
+                stdout = ''
+                stderr = 'boom'
+            mock_execute.return_value = FakeProcess()
+            self.assertRaises(
+                podman.PodmanSocketNotFoundError,
+                podman.discover_podman_socket
+            )
+
+        @mock.patch('tobiko.shell.sh.execute')
+        def test_is_podman_running(self, mock_execute):
+            class FakeProcess:
+                exit_status = 0
+                stdout = '/run/podman/io.podman'
+                stderr = ''
+            mock_execute.return_value = FakeProcess()
+            self.assertEqual(podman.is_podman_running(), True)
+
+        @mock.patch('tobiko.shell.sh.execute')
+        def test_is_podman_running_without_socket(self, mock_execute):
+            class FakeProcess:
+                exit_status = 1
+                stdout = ''
+                stderr = 'boom'
+            mock_execute.return_value = FakeProcess()
+            self.assertEqual(podman.is_podman_running(), False)