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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 8.6k 879

  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 386

  5. netavark netavark Public

    Container network stack

    Rust 699 130

Repositories

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  • buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    containers/buildah’s past year of commit activity
    Go 8,637 Apache-2.0 879 200 (1 issue needs help) 48 Updated Mar 2, 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 284 Apache-2.0 76 215 (2 issues need help) 26 Updated Mar 2, 2026
  • tar-diff Public
    containers/tar-diff’s past year of commit activity
    Go 58 Apache-2.0 20 22 3 Updated Mar 2, 2026
  • podman-py Public

    Python bindings for Podman's RESTful API

    containers/podman-py’s past year of commit activity
    Python 357 Apache-2.0 127 31 (5 issues need help) 14 Updated Mar 2, 2026
  • container-libs Public

    Monorepository with libraries used by the containers projects.

    containers/container-libs’s past year of commit activity
    Go 69 79 256 (1 issue needs help) 51 Updated Mar 2, 2026
  • podman-compose Public

    a script to run docker-compose.yml using podman

    containers/podman-compose’s past year of commit activity
    Python 5,979 GPL-2.0 577 343 32 Updated Mar 2, 2026
  • toolbox Public

    Tool for interactive command line environments on Linux

    containers/toolbox’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 3,254 Apache-2.0 244 163 64 Updated Mar 2, 2026
  • crun Public

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

    containers/crun’s past year of commit activity
    C 3,802 GPL-2.0 386 51 10 Updated Mar 2, 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 1,224 Apache-2.0 275 50 27 Updated Mar 2, 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 2,625 MIT 307 54 (11 issues need help) 24 Updated Mar 3, 2026