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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 29.3k 2.8k

  2. buildah buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    Go 8.3k 848

  3. skopeo skopeo Public

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

    Go 9.9k 867

  4. crun crun Public

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

    C 3.6k 377

  5. netavark netavark Public

    Container network stack

    Rust 653 117

Repositories

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  • podman-desktop-media Public

    assets like videos pictures for Release Notes, etc

    containers/podman-desktop-media’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 3 9 2 1 Updated Oct 19, 2025
  • composefs-rs Public

    Rust library for the composefs filesystem

    containers/composefs-rs’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 37 Apache-2.0 14 26 (1 issue needs help) 9 Updated Oct 19, 2025
  • ansible-podman-collections Public

    Repository for Ansible content that can include playbooks, roles, modules, and plugins for use with the Podman tool

    containers/ansible-podman-collections’s past year of commit activity
    Python 289 GPL-3.0 163 25 (1 issue needs help) 5 Updated Oct 19, 2025
  • 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 2,229 MIT 268 44 (15 issues need help) 11 Updated Oct 18, 2025
  • 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 259 Apache-2.0 66 212 (2 issues need help) 15 Updated Oct 18, 2025
  • skopeo Public

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

    containers/skopeo’s past year of commit activity
    Go 9,886 Apache-2.0 867 51 (3 issues need help) 20 Updated Oct 18, 2025
  • ramalama.github.io Public

    RamaLama web site.

    containers/ramalama.github.io’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 3 10 2 8 Updated Oct 17, 2025
  • container-libs Public

    Monorepository with libraries used by the containers projects.

    containers/container-libs’s past year of commit activity
    Go 27 27 235 (1 issue needs help) 18 Updated Oct 17, 2025
  • containerimage-py Public

    A python library for interacting with container images and container image registries

    containers/containerimage-py’s past year of commit activity
    Python 5 Apache-2.0 2 3 1 Updated Oct 17, 2025
  • buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    containers/buildah’s past year of commit activity
    Go 8,349 Apache-2.0 848 189 (1 issue needs help) 38 Updated Oct 17, 2025