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Containers

Open Repository for Container Tools

Welcome to Containers!

We're a collection of open source tools that create, configure, and work with containers.

🛠️ Tools

Some of our tools include Podman, Buildah, Skopeo, conmon-rs, crun, and RamaLama, as well as our supporting libraries, common, storage, and image in the container-libs repo. Check them out and see all the cool things happening!

Podman Buildah Skopeo crun ramalama

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🤝 Community

We have an active community. Most of our community communication channels are around Podman, but we definitely welcome anyone with an interest in containers or any of our tools.

Maintainers of Containers and other community members generally chat here:

Note: The Matrix room has been bridged with the Discord server

We also hold community meetings around once a month and have a mailing list for additional discussion.

Follow us on Twitter! @podman_io @buildah_io

👩‍💻 Contributing

We welcome and encourage contributions, including issues, discussions, and PR's. Please make sure to read our Contributing Guidelines and our Code of Conduct before doing so.

🔐 Security

Found a security issue? Most projects follow our Security and Disclosure Policy, but a few may have further instructions, so please check the specific project's SECURITY.md in their top-level repository on how to proceed.

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  1. podman podman Public

    Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

    Go 29.3k 2.8k

  2. buildah buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    Go 8.4k 848

  3. skopeo skopeo Public

    Work with remote images registries - retrieving information, images, signing content

    Go 9.9k 869

  4. crun crun Public

    A fast and lightweight fully featured OCI runtime and C library for running containers

    C 3.6k 378

  5. netavark netavark Public

    Container network stack

    Rust 654 117

Repositories

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  • composefs-rs Public

    Rust library for the composefs filesystem

    containers/composefs-rs’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 37 Apache-2.0 14 27 (1 issue needs help) 7 Updated Oct 22, 2025
  • libhvee Public

    Special purposed library for Windows HyperV control

    containers/libhvee’s past year of commit activity
    Go 29 Apache-2.0 16 7 6 Updated Oct 22, 2025
  • podman-desktop-extension-ai-lab Public

    Work with LLMs on a local environment using containers

    containers/podman-desktop-extension-ai-lab’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 259 Apache-2.0 66 218 (2 issues need help) 18 Updated Oct 22, 2025
  • ramalama Public

    RamaLama is an open-source developer tool that simplifies the local serving of AI models from any source and facilitates their use for inference in production, all through the familiar language of containers.

    containers/ramalama’s past year of commit activity
    Python 2,233 MIT 269 46 (14 issues need help) 16 Updated Oct 22, 2025
  • podman Public

    Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

    containers/podman’s past year of commit activity
    Go 29,335 Apache-2.0 2,830 833 (17 issues need help) 111 Updated Oct 22, 2025
  • buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    containers/buildah’s past year of commit activity
    Go 8,355 Apache-2.0 848 188 (1 issue needs help) 41 Updated Oct 22, 2025
  • podman-machine-os Public

    machine image files

    containers/podman-machine-os’s past year of commit activity
    Go 27 23 5 3 Updated Oct 22, 2025
  • netavark Public

    Container network stack

    containers/netavark’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 654 Apache-2.0 117 53 13 Updated Oct 22, 2025
  • aardvark-dns Public

    Authoritative dns server for A/AAAA container records. Forwards other request to host's /etc/resolv.conf

    containers/aardvark-dns’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 227 Apache-2.0 42 12 2 Updated Oct 22, 2025
  • kubernetes-mcp-server Public

    Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Kubernetes and OpenShift

    containers/kubernetes-mcp-server’s past year of commit activity
    Go 720 Apache-2.0 156 24 12 Updated Oct 22, 2025