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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 31.1k 3k

  2. buildah buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    Go 8.7k 882

  3. skopeo skopeo Public

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

    Go 10.6k 910

  4. crun crun Public

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

    C 3.8k 394

  5. netavark netavark Public

    Container network stack

    Rust 706 134

Repositories

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  • conmon-rs Public

    An OCI container runtime monitor.

    containers/conmon-rs’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 240 Apache-2.0 48 18 (4 issues need help) 1 Updated Mar 19, 2026
  • podman-py Public

    Python bindings for Podman's RESTful API

    containers/podman-py’s past year of commit activity
    Python 361 Apache-2.0 128 32 (5 issues need help) 13 Updated Mar 19, 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 2,654 MIT 308 57 (11 issues need help) 29 Updated Mar 19, 2026
  • libkrun Public

    A dynamic library providing Virtualization-based process isolation capabilities

    containers/libkrun’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 1,748 Apache-2.0 157 53 (4 issues need help) 20 Updated Mar 19, 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 1,298 Apache-2.0 290 49 26 Updated Mar 19, 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 3,825 GPL-2.0 394 38 4 Updated Mar 19, 2026
  • nri-plugins Public

    A collection of community maintained NRI plugins

    containers/nri-plugins’s past year of commit activity
    Go 102 Apache-2.0 32 13 7 Updated Mar 19, 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 161 AGPL-3.0 24 27 13 Updated Mar 19, 2026
  • podman-tui Public

    Podman Terminal UI

    containers/podman-tui’s past year of commit activity
    Go 1,077 Apache-2.0 45 4 6 Updated Mar 19, 2026
  • ramalama.github.io Public

    RamaLama web site.

    containers/ramalama.github.io’s past year of commit activity
    HTML 4 12 0 6 Updated Mar 18, 2026