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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 30k 2.9k

  2. buildah buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    Go 8.5k 862

  3. skopeo skopeo Public

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

    Go 10.2k 888

  4. crun crun Public

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

    C 3.7k 378

  5. netavark netavark Public

    Container network stack

    Rust 676 124

Repositories

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  • libkrun Public

    A dynamic library providing Virtualization-based process isolation capabilities

    containers/libkrun’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 1,405 Apache-2.0 123 45 (3 issues need help) 13 Updated Dec 14, 2025
  • podman-py Public

    Python bindings for Podman's RESTful API

    containers/podman-py’s past year of commit activity
    Python 343 Apache-2.0 124 30 (5 issues need help) 9 Updated Dec 13, 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 2,385 MIT 285 45 (10 issues need help) 16 Updated Dec 13, 2025
  • libocispec Public

    a C library for accessing OCI runtime and image spec files

    containers/libocispec’s past year of commit activity
    Python 56 32 1 0 Updated Dec 13, 2025
  • buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    containers/buildah’s past year of commit activity
    Go 8,483 Apache-2.0 862 200 (1 issue needs help) 67 Updated Dec 13, 2025
  • container-libs Public

    Monorepository with libraries used by the containers projects.

    containers/container-libs’s past year of commit activity
    Go 45 54 251 (1 issue needs help) 32 Updated Dec 13, 2025
  • netavark Public

    Container network stack

    containers/netavark’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 676 Apache-2.0 124 52 13 Updated Dec 12, 2025
  • libhvee Public

    Special purposed library for Windows HyperV control

    containers/libhvee’s past year of commit activity
    Go 30 Apache-2.0 16 7 9 Updated Dec 12, 2025
  • automation Public

    Automation scripts and configurations common across the containers org. repositories

    containers/automation’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 20 Apache-2.0 21 2 4 Updated Dec 12, 2025
  • podman.io Public

    The new podman.io design project

    containers/podman.io’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 81 Apache-2.0 81 21 8 Updated Dec 12, 2025