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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 30.9k 3k

  2. buildah buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    Go 8.7k 882

  3. skopeo skopeo Public

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

    Go 10.5k 908

  4. crun crun Public

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

    C 3.8k 390

  5. netavark netavark Public

    Container network stack

    Rust 702 132

Repositories

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  • conmon-rs Public

    An OCI container runtime monitor.

    containers/conmon-rs’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 239 Apache-2.0 47 18 (4 issues need help) 1 Updated Mar 9, 2026
  • podman Public

    Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

    containers/podman’s past year of commit activity
    Go 30,947 Apache-2.0 3,007 914 (14 issues need help) 145 Updated Mar 9, 2026
  • podman-py Public

    Python bindings for Podman's RESTful API

    containers/podman-py’s past year of commit activity
    Python 359 Apache-2.0 128 31 (5 issues need help) 14 Updated Mar 9, 2026
  • libkrun Public

    A dynamic library providing Virtualization-based process isolation capabilities

    containers/libkrun’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 1,718 Apache-2.0 153 52 (4 issues need help) 19 Updated Mar 9, 2026
  • container-selinux Public

    SELinux policy files for Container Runtimes

    containers/container-selinux’s past year of commit activity
    Roff 286 GPL-2.0 108 10 4 Updated Mar 9, 2026
  • nri-plugins Public

    A collection of community maintained NRI plugins

    containers/nri-plugins’s past year of commit activity
    Go 102 Apache-2.0 32 14 7 Updated Mar 9, 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 1,243 Apache-2.0 281 53 31 Updated Mar 9, 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 2,630 MIT 306 57 (11 issues need help) 32 Updated Mar 9, 2026
  • podlet Public

    Generate Podman Quadlet files from a Podman command, compose file, or existing object

    containers/podlet’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 1,362 MPL-2.0 38 42 (3 issues need help) 5 Updated Mar 9, 2026
  • gvisor-tap-vsock Public

    A new network stack based on gVisor

    containers/gvisor-tap-vsock’s past year of commit activity
    Go 367 Apache-2.0 81 28 (1 issue needs help) 19 Updated Mar 9, 2026