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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 30.6k 3k

  2. buildah buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    Go 8.6k 877

  3. skopeo skopeo Public

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

    Go 10.4k 904

  4. crun crun Public

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

    C 3.8k 387

  5. netavark netavark Public

    Container network stack

    Rust 691 128

Repositories

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  • 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 280 Apache-2.0 76 214 (2 issues need help) 24 Updated Feb 6, 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 2,570 MIT 300 55 (10 issues need help) 22 Updated Feb 6, 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 31 (5 issues need help) 14 Updated Feb 6, 2026
  • composefs-rs Public

    Rust library for the composefs filesystem

    containers/composefs-rs’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 53 Apache-2.0 16 28 (1 issue needs help) 10 Updated Feb 6, 2026
  • podman Public

    Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

    containers/podman’s past year of commit activity
    Go 30,600 Apache-2.0 2,965 912 (14 issues need help) 146 Updated Feb 6, 2026
  • podman.io Public

    The new podman.io design project

    containers/podman.io’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 84 Apache-2.0 83 21 2 Updated Feb 6, 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 1,109 Apache-2.0 248 41 16 Updated Feb 6, 2026
  • tar-diff Public
    containers/tar-diff’s past year of commit activity
    Go 58 Apache-2.0 19 15 4 Updated Feb 6, 2026
  • qm Public

    QM is a containerized environment for running Functional Safety qm (Quality Management) software

    containers/qm’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 32 GPL-2.0 37 5 0 Updated Feb 6, 2026
  • libkrun Public

    A dynamic library providing Virtualization-based process isolation capabilities

    containers/libkrun’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 1,537 Apache-2.0 138 45 (4 issues need help) 17 Updated Feb 6, 2026