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Faster Podman Workloads on macOS and Windows
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…
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Wrestling with Netlink: Adding Conntrack Support to Podman as an LFX Mentee
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…
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BoltDB Database Migration
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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Accelerating Parallel Layer Creation
Earlier this year, my colleague Jan Rodak worked on Accelerating Parallel Layer Removal. It worked out so well that we wanted to tackle the other side of the problem: Layer Creation. Layer creation is even slower than removal as we must write all data to disk and not just just unlink files so there is…
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Those pesky system connections
Development of Podman 6 is heating up! I have another usability improvement to share with you that some people see when running the Podman CLI. This case usually came up when people had created multiple machines. It was also more prevalent on Macs where people were using both libkrun and applehv provider machines and attempting…
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