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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 30.8k 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 907

  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 697 131

Repositories

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  • 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 Feb 28, 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 2,616 MIT 307 53 (11 issues need help) 26 Updated Feb 28, 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 3,797 GPL-2.0 386 51 8 Updated Feb 28, 2026
  • aardvark-dns Public

    Authoritative dns server for A/AAAA container records. Forwards other request to host's /etc/resolv.conf

    containers/aardvark-dns’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 250 Apache-2.0 47 14 7 Updated Feb 28, 2026
  • containertoolbx.org Public

    Website for the Toolbx project

    containers/containertoolbx.org’s past year of commit activity
    CSS 27 MIT 13 0 2 Updated Feb 28, 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 1,214 Apache-2.0 272 50 34 Updated Feb 27, 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 65 Updated Feb 28, 2026
  • buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    containers/buildah’s past year of commit activity
    Go 8,633 Apache-2.0 879 200 (1 issue needs help) 48 Updated Feb 27, 2026
  • container-libs Public

    Monorepository with libraries used by the containers projects.

    containers/container-libs’s past year of commit activity
    Go 69 79 255 (1 issue needs help) 50 Updated Feb 27, 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 283 Apache-2.0 76 215 (2 issues need help) 28 Updated Feb 27, 2026