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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 30.3k 2.9k

  2. buildah buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    Go 8.5k 869

  3. skopeo skopeo Public

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

    Go 10.3k 900

  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 682 128

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 354 Apache-2.0 125 30 (5 issues need help) 10 Updated Jan 14, 2026
  • podman Public

    Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

    containers/podman’s past year of commit activity
    Go 30,313 Apache-2.0 2,940 910 (15 issues need help) 146 Updated Jan 13, 2026
  • podman-machine-os Public

    machine image files

    containers/podman-machine-os’s past year of commit activity
    Go 32 26 6 1 Updated Jan 13, 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 155 AGPL-3.0 25 27 6 Updated Jan 13, 2026
  • buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    containers/buildah’s past year of commit activity
    Go 8,538 Apache-2.0 869 205 (1 issue needs help) 57 Updated Jan 13, 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 13, 2026
  • podman-compose Public

    a script to run docker-compose.yml using podman

    containers/podman-compose’s past year of commit activity
    Python 5,900 GPL-2.0 562 342 37 Updated Jan 13, 2026
  • podman-tui Public

    Podman Terminal UI

    containers/podman-tui’s past year of commit activity
    Go 1,023 Apache-2.0 45 2 3 Updated Jan 13, 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 2,517 MIT 294 42 (9 issues need help) 13 Updated Jan 13, 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 985 Apache-2.0 219 33 21 Updated Jan 13, 2026