The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is gaining significant traction in AI. This protocol, supported by most large language model (LLM) providers, enhances an LLM’s capabilities, allowing it to manage resources like your laptop’s filesystem, AWS services, and most importantly for this discussion, containers. MCP uses a client-server architecture. The local MCP client connects an LLM…
Hello Podman users, I wanted to make you aware of a problem our team has been having on Apple MacOS in the recent months. And no, this is not an Apple bashing opportunity; I simply want to be transparent and communicate this specific problem and how it impacts our users. Our Podman machine OS images…
Yesterday our team released a new version of Podman: Podman-5.5.1. This release is a bug fix release only and fixed about a dozen or so problems including two in our RESTFul API. Check out the release notes for specifics on what was changed. You can also download installers and binaries from the release page as…
The Podman team is pleased to announce the first release candidate for Podman v5.5. Some of the highlights of the release include The commands for managing artifacts got some improvements including a new command podman artifact extract. Even more exciting is Podman’s ability to mount artifacts into containers. There are also a number of improvements…
With the release of Podman 5.4, Podman Machine introduces a new option called –playbook for the podman machine init command. With –playbook, you can take advantage of Ansible Playbooks to customize your Podman Machines when they boot for the first time. Virtual Machine customization prior to 5.4 Leading up to the release of Podman 5.4,…
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