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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 29.9k 2.9k

  2. buildah buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    Go 8.5k 859

  3. skopeo skopeo Public

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

    Go 10.1k 886

  4. crun crun Public

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

    C 3.7k 379

  5. netavark netavark Public

    Container network stack

    Rust 671 123

Repositories

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  • conmon-rs Public

    An OCI container runtime monitor.

    containers/conmon-rs’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 224 Apache-2.0 45 18 (4 issues need help) 3 Updated Dec 2, 2025
  • podman Public

    Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

    containers/podman’s past year of commit activity
    Go 29,875 Apache-2.0 2,882 864 (14 issues need help) 114 Updated Dec 2, 2025
  • podman-py Public

    Python bindings for Podman's RESTful API

    containers/podman-py’s past year of commit activity
    Python 340 Apache-2.0 124 30 (5 issues need help) 10 Updated Dec 2, 2025
  • conmon Public

    An OCI container runtime monitor.

    containers/conmon’s past year of commit activity
    C 468 Apache-2.0 140 17 9 Updated Dec 2, 2025
  • libkrunfw Public

    A dynamic library bundling the guest payload consumed by libkrun

    containers/libkrunfw’s past year of commit activity
    C 107 43 3 1 Updated Dec 2, 2025
  • libkrun Public

    A dynamic library providing Virtualization-based process isolation capabilities

    containers/libkrun’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 1,378 Apache-2.0 121 46 (3 issues need help) 15 Updated Dec 2, 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 266 Apache-2.0 70 219 (2 issues need help) 17 Updated Dec 2, 2025
  • ramalama-stack Public

    An external provider for Llama Stack allowing for the use of RamaLama for inference.

    containers/ramalama-stack’s past year of commit activity
    Python 21 Apache-2.0 14 7 (1 issue needs help) 3 Updated Dec 2, 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 2,351 MIT 280 46 (11 issues need help) 11 Updated Dec 2, 2025
  • podman-tui Public

    Podman Terminal UI

    containers/podman-tui’s past year of commit activity
    Go 973 Apache-2.0 42 2 7 Updated Dec 1, 2025