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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 29.4k 2.8k

  2. buildah buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    Go 8.4k 848

  3. skopeo skopeo Public

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

    Go 9.9k 869

  4. crun crun Public

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

    C 3.6k 378

  5. netavark netavark Public

    Container network stack

    Rust 655 118

Repositories

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  • 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 260 Apache-2.0 66 218 (2 issues need help) 15 Updated Oct 24, 2025
  • libkrun Public

    A dynamic library providing Virtualization-based process isolation capabilities

    containers/libkrun’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 1,295 Apache-2.0 113 48 (3 issues need help) 15 Updated Oct 24, 2025
  • kubernetes-mcp-server Public

    Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Kubernetes and OpenShift

    containers/kubernetes-mcp-server’s past year of commit activity
    Go 730 Apache-2.0 159 24 11 Updated Oct 24, 2025
  • podman Public

    Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

    containers/podman’s past year of commit activity
    Go 29,362 Apache-2.0 2,831 832 (15 issues need help) 108 Updated Oct 24, 2025
  • gvisor-tap-vsock Public

    A new network stack based on gVisor

    containers/gvisor-tap-vsock’s past year of commit activity
    Go 333 Apache-2.0 70 23 (1 issue needs help) 5 Updated Oct 24, 2025
  • conmon-rs Public

    An OCI container runtime monitor.

    containers/conmon-rs’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 221 Apache-2.0 43 18 (4 issues need help) 1 Updated Oct 24, 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 2,238 MIT 269 44 (14 issues need help) 17 Updated Oct 24, 2025
  • prometheus-podman-exporter Public

    Prometheus exporter for podman environments exposing containers, pods, images, volumes and networks information.

    containers/prometheus-podman-exporter’s past year of commit activity
    Go 193 Apache-2.0 34 10 0 Updated Oct 24, 2025
  • qm Public

    QM is a containerized environment for running Functional Safety qm (Quality Management) software

    containers/qm’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 30 GPL-2.0 36 9 2 Updated Oct 23, 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 23, 2025