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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

🛫 Related Repositories Living Elsewhere

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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 30.9k 3k

  2. buildah buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    Go 8.7k 880

  3. skopeo skopeo Public

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

    Go 10.5k 908

  4. crun crun Public

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

    C 3.8k 388

  5. netavark netavark Public

    Container network stack

    Rust 701 130

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 3,806 GPL-2.0 388 47 7 Updated Mar 5, 2026
  • podman-py Public

    Python bindings for Podman's RESTful API

    containers/podman-py’s past year of commit activity
    Python 358 Apache-2.0 127 31 (5 issues need help) 15 Updated Mar 5, 2026
  • fetchit Public

    FetchIt is used to manage the life cycle and configuration of Podman containers

    containers/fetchit’s past year of commit activity
    Go 160 AGPL-3.0 24 27 12 Updated Mar 5, 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 284 Apache-2.0 76 215 (2 issues need help) 27 Updated Mar 4, 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 252 Apache-2.0 47 14 3 Updated Mar 4, 2026
  • krunkit Public

    Launch configurable virtual machines with libkrun

    containers/krunkit’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 237 Apache-2.0 20 10 1 Updated Mar 4, 2026
  • tar-diff Public
    containers/tar-diff’s past year of commit activity
    Go 59 Apache-2.0 20 20 3 Updated Mar 4, 2026
  • podman Public

    Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

    containers/podman’s past year of commit activity
    Go 30,894 Apache-2.0 3,001 912 (14 issues need help) 149 Updated Mar 4, 2026
  • netavark Public

    Container network stack

    containers/netavark’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 701 Apache-2.0 130 53 13 Updated Mar 4, 2026
  • buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    containers/buildah’s past year of commit activity
    Go 8,652 Apache-2.0 880 201 (1 issue needs help) 44 Updated Mar 4, 2026