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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 31.2k 3k

  2. buildah buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    Go 8.7k 886

  3. skopeo skopeo Public

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

    Go 10.6k 911

  4. crun crun Public

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

    C 3.8k 395

  5. netavark netavark Public

    Container network stack

    Rust 712 133

Repositories

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  • podman-py Public

    Python bindings for Podman's RESTful API

    containers/podman-py’s past year of commit activity
    Python 361 Apache-2.0 129 32 (5 issues need help) 14 Updated Mar 29, 2026
  • buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    containers/buildah’s past year of commit activity
    Go 8,697 Apache-2.0 886 204 (1 issue needs help) 39 Updated Mar 29, 2026
  • podman-compose Public

    a script to run docker-compose.yml using podman

    containers/podman-compose’s past year of commit activity
    Python 6,017 GPL-2.0 581 344 32 Updated Mar 29, 2026
  • skopeo Public

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

    containers/skopeo’s past year of commit activity
    Go 10,625 Apache-2.0 911 52 (3 issues need help) 21 Updated Mar 29, 2026
  • container-libs Public

    Monorepository with libraries used by the containers projects.

    containers/container-libs’s past year of commit activity
    Go 73 85 241 (1 issue needs help) 51 Updated Mar 29, 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 1,394 MPL-2.0 39 38 (3 issues need help) 4 Updated Mar 28, 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 2,672 MIT 314 64 (11 issues need help) 33 Updated Mar 28, 2026
  • podman.io Public

    The new podman.io design project

    containers/podman.io’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 85 Apache-2.0 83 21 3 Updated Mar 27, 2026
  • engine-stressor Public

    A engine container stressor project

    containers/engine-stressor’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 3 Apache-2.0 3 2 (1 issue needs help) 0 Updated Mar 27, 2026
  • tar-diff Public
    containers/tar-diff’s past year of commit activity
    Go 59 Apache-2.0 20 16 4 Updated Mar 27, 2026