Welcome to Podman Container Tools — a collection of open source tools for building, managing, and working with OCI containers and images. We are a CNCF Sandbox Project.

• Podman - A tool for managing OCI containers and pods. Podman provides a Docker-compatible command line that operates without requiring a daemon.

• Buildah - A tool that facilitates building OCI images. Buildah specializes in creating container images without requiring a full container runtime.

• Skopeo - A tool that works with remote image registries: retrieve information, copy images, sign content, and more — all without requiring a container runtime.

• container-libs - A monorepository containing libraries such as common, storage, and image, which are used by the projects under podman-container-tools.

We're a community-driven project and welcome your participation!

• IRC: #podman on libera.chat
• Matrix: Podman Matrix Room
• Discord: Join our Discord server
• GitHub Discussions: Ask questions and share ideas in our project repositories

• Podman: @podman_io
• Buildah: @buildah_io

We welcome contributions! Each project has its own Contributing Guidelines, and we follow a Code of Conduct across all repositories.

To get started:

1. Check out the issues in the repository you're interested in
2. Read the contributing guidelines for that project
3. Join our community channels to connect with maintainers and other contributors

If you discover a security vulnerability, please refer to our Security and Disclosure Policy for reporting procedures.