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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 30.6k 3k

  2. buildah buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    Go 8.6k 876

  3. skopeo skopeo Public

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

    Go 10.4k 903

  4. crun crun Public

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

    C 3.8k 384

  5. netavark netavark Public

    Container network stack

    Rust 690 128

Repositories

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  • crun Public

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

    containers/crun’s past year of commit activity
    C 3,755 GPL-2.0 384 46 8 Updated Feb 2, 2026
  • libkrunfw Public

    A dynamic library bundling the guest payload consumed by libkrun

    containers/libkrunfw’s past year of commit activity
    C 117 49 3 0 Updated Feb 2, 2026
  • podman-py Public

    Python bindings for Podman's RESTful API

    containers/podman-py’s past year of commit activity
    Python 355 Apache-2.0 125 30 (5 issues need help) 11 Updated Feb 2, 2026
  • 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 278 Apache-2.0 75 214 (2 issues need help) 20 Updated Feb 2, 2026
  • kubernetes-mcp-server Public

    Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Kubernetes and OpenShift

    containers/kubernetes-mcp-server’s past year of commit activity
    Go 1,084 Apache-2.0 243 37 20 Updated Feb 2, 2026
  • 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 2,559 MIT 297 54 (11 issues need help) 22 Updated Feb 2, 2026
  • ansible-podman-collections Public

    Repository for Ansible content that can include playbooks, roles, modules, and plugins for use with the Podman tool

    containers/ansible-podman-collections’s past year of commit activity
    Python 302 GPL-3.0 162 25 (1 issue needs help) 6 Updated Feb 1, 2026
  • podman.io Public

    The new podman.io design project

    containers/podman.io’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 83 Apache-2.0 82 21 4 Updated Jan 31, 2026
  • 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 246 Apache-2.0 47 14 3 Updated Feb 1, 2026
  • buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    containers/buildah’s past year of commit activity
    Go 8,582 Apache-2.0 876 208 (1 issue needs help) 46 Updated Feb 1, 2026