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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 29.5k 2.8k

  2. buildah buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    Go 8.4k 851

  3. skopeo skopeo Public

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

    Go 9.9k 873

  4. crun crun Public

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

    C 3.6k 378

  5. netavark netavark Public

    Container network stack

    Rust 658 120

Repositories

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  • libhvee Public

    Special purposed library for Windows HyperV control

    containers/libhvee’s past year of commit activity
    Go 29 Apache-2.0 16 7 6 Updated Oct 30, 2025
  • skopeo Public

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

    containers/skopeo’s past year of commit activity
    Go 9,944 Apache-2.0 873 51 (3 issues need help) 19 Updated Oct 30, 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 2,251 MIT 271 48 (14 issues need help) 16 Updated Oct 30, 2025
  • podman Public

    Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

    containers/podman’s past year of commit activity
    Go 29,450 Apache-2.0 2,839 833 (13 issues need help) 115 Updated Oct 29, 2025
  • qm Public

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

    containers/qm’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 30 GPL-2.0 36 8 3 Updated Oct 29, 2025
  • 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 261 Apache-2.0 66 218 (2 issues need help) 18 Updated Oct 29, 2025
  • podman-py Public

    Python bindings for Podman's RESTful API

    containers/podman-py’s past year of commit activity
    Python 335 Apache-2.0 120 30 (5 issues need help) 11 Updated Oct 29, 2025
  • podman-machine-os Public

    machine image files

    containers/podman-machine-os’s past year of commit activity
    Go 27 23 5 3 Updated Oct 29, 2025
  • conmon Public

    An OCI container runtime monitor.

    containers/conmon’s past year of commit activity
    C 464 Apache-2.0 140 17 9 Updated Oct 29, 2025
  • ramalama.github.io Public

    RamaLama web site.

    containers/ramalama.github.io’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 3 10 0 0 Updated Oct 29, 2025