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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 31.4k 3.1k

  2. buildah buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    Go 8.7k 892

  3. skopeo skopeo Public

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

    Go 10.7k 914

  4. crun crun Public

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

    C 3.9k 401

  5. netavark netavark Public

    Container network stack

    Rust 724 135

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  • container-libs Public

    Monorepository with libraries used by the containers projects.

    containers/container-libs’s past year of commit activity
    Go 83 96 243 (1 issue needs help) 56 Updated Apr 19, 2026
  • podman-py Public

    Python bindings for Podman's RESTful API

    containers/podman-py’s past year of commit activity
    Python 370 Apache-2.0 129 30 (4 issues need help) 13 Updated Apr 18, 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 2,759 MIT 333 66 (10 issues need help) 35 Updated Apr 18, 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 162 AGPL-3.0 24 27 15 Updated Apr 17, 2026
  • 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 3,876 GPL-2.0 401 37 6 Updated Apr 17, 2026
  • podman Public

    Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

    containers/podman’s past year of commit activity
    Go 31,444 Apache-2.0 3,062 935 (10 issues need help) 154 Updated Apr 17, 2026
  • buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    containers/buildah’s past year of commit activity
    Go 8,739 Apache-2.0 892 206 (1 issue needs help) 41 Updated Apr 17, 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 292 Apache-2.0 80 216 (2 issues need help) 21 Updated Apr 17, 2026
  • skopeo Public

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

    containers/skopeo’s past year of commit activity
    Go 10,739 Apache-2.0 914 53 (3 issues need help) 19 Updated Apr 17, 2026
  • gvisor-tap-vsock Public

    A new network stack based on gVisor

    containers/gvisor-tap-vsock’s past year of commit activity
    Go 379 Apache-2.0 85 28 (1 issue needs help) 15 Updated Apr 17, 2026

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