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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 30.1k 2.9k

  2. buildah buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    Go 8.5k 862

  3. skopeo skopeo Public

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

    Go 10.2k 893

  4. crun crun Public

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

    C 3.7k 379

  5. netavark netavark Public

    Container network stack

    Rust 678 125

Repositories

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  • podman.io Public

    The new podman.io design project

    containers/podman.io’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 82 Apache-2.0 83 21 3 Updated Dec 23, 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 272 Apache-2.0 70 216 (2 issues need help) 24 Updated Dec 23, 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 907 Apache-2.0 201 33 17 Updated Dec 23, 2025
  • podman-py Public

    Python bindings for Podman's RESTful API

    containers/podman-py’s past year of commit activity
    Python 349 Apache-2.0 124 30 (5 issues need help) 10 Updated Dec 23, 2025
  • skopeo Public

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

    containers/skopeo’s past year of commit activity
    Go 10,204 Apache-2.0 893 51 (3 issues need help) 21 Updated Dec 23, 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 240 Apache-2.0 43 13 5 Updated Dec 23, 2025
  • podman-tui Public

    Podman Terminal UI

    containers/podman-tui’s past year of commit activity
    Go 993 Apache-2.0 43 1 2 Updated Dec 23, 2025
  • prometheus-podman-exporter Public

    Prometheus exporter for podman environments exposing containers, pods, images, volumes and networks information.

    containers/prometheus-podman-exporter’s past year of commit activity
    Go 204 Apache-2.0 33 13 1 Updated Dec 22, 2025
  • podman Public

    Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

    containers/podman’s past year of commit activity
    Go 30,113 Apache-2.0 2,909 890 (14 issues need help) 141 Updated Dec 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 2,406 MIT 287 42 (9 issues need help) 20 Updated Dec 22, 2025