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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 30.3k 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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  • 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 243 Apache-2.0 45 13 3 Updated Jan 14, 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) 16 Updated Jan 14, 2026
  • 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 30,318 Apache-2.0 2,941 910 (15 issues need help) 145 Updated Jan 14, 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 991 Apache-2.0 221 33 18 Updated Jan 14, 2026
  • conmon-rs Public

    An OCI container runtime monitor.

    containers/conmon-rs’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 230 Apache-2.0 47 18 (4 issues need help) 3 Updated Jan 14, 2026
  • container-selinux Public

    SELinux policy files for Container Runtimes

    containers/container-selinux’s past year of commit activity
    Roff 287 GPL-2.0 106 10 6 Updated Jan 14, 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 156 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