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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 30.2k 2.9k

  2. buildah buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    Go 8.5k 864

  3. skopeo skopeo Public

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

    Go 10.3k 897

  4. crun crun Public

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

    C 3.7k 381

  5. netavark netavark Public

    Container network stack

    Rust 682 126

Repositories

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  • buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    containers/buildah’s past year of commit activity
    Go 8,525 Apache-2.0 864 204 (1 issue needs help) 67 Updated Jan 6, 2026
  • podman-py Public

    Python bindings for Podman's RESTful API

    containers/podman-py’s past year of commit activity
    Python 351 Apache-2.0 125 30 (5 issues need help) 10 Updated Jan 6, 2026
  • qm Public

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

    containers/qm’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 31 GPL-2.0 37 5 2 Updated Jan 6, 2026
  • fetchit Public

    FetchIt is used to manage the life cycle and configuration of Podman containers

    containers/fetchit’s past year of commit activity
    Go 154 AGPL-3.0 25 27 6 Updated Jan 6, 2026
  • container-libs Public

    Monorepository with libraries used by the containers projects.

    containers/container-libs’s past year of commit activity
    Go 56 61 254 (1 issue needs help) 37 Updated Jan 6, 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 273 Apache-2.0 74 215 (2 issues need help) 25 Updated Jan 6, 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 2,486 MIT 290 42 (9 issues need help) 15 Updated Jan 6, 2026
  • container-selinux Public

    SELinux policy files for Container Runtimes

    containers/container-selinux’s past year of commit activity
    Roff 286 GPL-2.0 106 11 7 Updated Jan 6, 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 6, 2026
  • podman Public

    Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

    containers/podman’s past year of commit activity
    Go 30,238 Apache-2.0 2,930 905 (14 issues need help) 146 Updated Jan 6, 2026