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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 30.4k 2.9k

  2. buildah buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    Go 8.6k 872

  3. skopeo skopeo Public

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

    Go 10.3k 901

  4. crun crun Public

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

    C 3.7k 383

  5. netavark netavark Public

    Container network stack

    Rust 685 128

Repositories

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  • conmon-rs Public

    An OCI container runtime monitor.

    containers/conmon-rs’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 232 Apache-2.0 47 18 (4 issues need help) 4 Updated Jan 20, 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 243 Apache-2.0 45 13 2 Updated Jan 20, 2026
  • netavark Public

    Container network stack

    containers/netavark’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 685 Apache-2.0 128 52 11 Updated Jan 20, 2026
  • podman Public

    Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

    containers/podman’s past year of commit activity
    Go 30,397 Apache-2.0 2,947 908 (15 issues need help) 138 Updated Jan 20, 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 2,532 MIT 294 43 (10 issues need help) 25 Updated Jan 20, 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 32 (5 issues need help) 12 Updated Jan 20, 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 275 Apache-2.0 75 214 (2 issues need help) 17 Updated Jan 20, 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 1,014 Apache-2.0 224 37 21 Updated Jan 20, 2026
  • podlet Public

    Generate Podman Quadlet files from a Podman command, compose file, or existing object

    containers/podlet’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 1,273 MPL-2.0 34 37 (3 issues need help) 5 Updated Jan 20, 2026
  • luksy Public

    offline encryption/decryption using LUKS formats

    containers/luksy’s past year of commit activity
    Go 9 Apache-2.0 2 1 1 Updated Jan 19, 2026