“It works on my machine” is a dangerous phrase in our line of work. While Podman runs natively on Linux, utilizing the kernel directly, the experience on macOS and Windows is different. These platforms require a virtual machine to provide the necessary Linux environment. This virtualization layer introduces overhead that often leads to user complaints
Several of the containers projects are going to change their go import paths. Some of this work had been when we made the monorepo container-libs; where we moved storage, common, and image into a singular repository. The moves that are taking place now are not nearly as extreme and the motivations are also different. We…
If you are a developer using Podman on macOS or Windows, you might have noticed that certain operations, specifically building images with large contexts or loading large image tarballs, can sometimes feel slower compared to native Linux or Docker. I’ve spent some time investigating this performance gap, and my research led me to a recent…
In this post, I am going to share my journey as an LFX Mentee. I worked with the Podman Container Tools organization to solve a specific networking issue in Netavark using Rust. What is LFX Mentorship? It is a remote program organized by the Linux Foundation. It is designed to help people start contributing to…
Starting with Podman 5.7, some of our users have noticed warning messages being printed by Podman when they run commands, looking a little like this: The deprecated BoltDB database driver is in use. This driver will be removed in the upcoming Podman 6.0 release in mid 2026. It is advised that you migrate to SQLite…
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THE CONTAINER TOOLS COLLECTION
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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.
Here are the chats where you will find our community:
We hold also community meetings around once a month and have a mailing list for additional discussion.
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