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HereDoc is here for Containerfiles in Podman!
HereDoc notation has been used for a while now in Bash, SQL, PHP, and other scripting languages. It allows a very long command to be broken down into several more readable lines while still being treated as a single command. For instance, in PHP, rather than having an SQL command like: Instead, you could make…
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Podman 5.2 release and it brings friends along too
The Podman upstream team has just released Podman 5.2. To quote Matt Heon’s email: Podman v5.2.0 has just been released. This release is the first one with full support for libkrun, allowing GPUs to be mounted into our VMs on MacOS to accelerate AI workloads, which I know has been much anticipated. Otherwise, this has…
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Podman and Libkrun
Podman machine’s primary virtualization driver is referred to as a “provider”. In April 2024, I added support for the krun as a provider for MacOS. We made little mention of the addition, because we also needed to tidy up items like regression testing, testing environments, and details around support. But as we near completion of…
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The new Hyper-V option in Podman Windows Installer
The Podman team introduced the support for Hyper-V with Podman version 4.8. With version 5.1, we updated the Podman Windows installer to allow Hyper-V configuration at installation time. This blog post will explain what this means and how to use it.
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Hack: Podman volumes and Ansible template idempotency
Anyone mildly familiar with Ansible will attest, maintaining idempotency is a key secret-sauce to stable automation. Without idempotency, it’s all but impossible to detect drift and/or predictably manage state changes. Similarly, anyone beyond a complete-beginning Podman user, will know that defining and using volumes are essential operations. Now for the problem: In Ansible-land, the template…
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THE CONTAINER TOOLS COLLECTION
Here’s some of the tools we work on.
There’s other tools and libraries we work on.
View our GitHub organization for the full list.
Join Our 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.
Here are the chats where you will find our community:
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