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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 30.5k 2.9k

  2. buildah buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    Go 8.6k 875

  3. skopeo skopeo Public

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

    Go 10.4k 903

  4. crun crun Public

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

    C 3.7k 384

  5. netavark netavark Public

    Container network stack

    Rust 687 128

Repositories

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  • podman-compose Public

    a script to run docker-compose.yml using podman

    containers/podman-compose’s past year of commit activity
    Python 5,925 GPL-2.0 566 344 37 Updated Jan 25, 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) 12 Updated Jan 25, 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 2,543 MIT 296 42 (11 issues need help) 20 Updated Jan 25, 2026
  • skopeo Public

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

    containers/skopeo’s past year of commit activity
    Go 10,354 Apache-2.0 903 52 (3 issues need help) 20 Updated Jan 25, 2026
  • buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    containers/buildah’s past year of commit activity
    Go 8,568 Apache-2.0 875 206 (1 issue needs help) 46 Updated Jan 25, 2026
  • ramalama.github.io Public

    RamaLama web site.

    containers/ramalama.github.io’s past year of commit activity
    HTML 4 12 0 6 Updated Jan 24, 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 277 Apache-2.0 76 216 (2 issues need help) 19 Updated Jan 24, 2026
  • netavark Public

    Container network stack

    containers/netavark’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 687 Apache-2.0 128 53 13 Updated Jan 24, 2026
  • 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 244 Apache-2.0 45 14 3 Updated Jan 24, 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 3,747 GPL-2.0 384 46 10 Updated Jan 23, 2026