As 2022 comes to a close, I wanted to highlight the great progress that Podman has made over the last year. Almost 5 years after our first public release, Podman continues to grow at a rapid pace, with hundreds of new features added over the last year. Let’s go over some of the highlights and…
It has been reported by some users that the podman build command is sometimes slow when run on MacOS and Windows. This is due to the fact that when Podman is used on these operating systems, it actually utilizes a remote client that communicates with a Linux system through the podman REST API service to…
It is coming together nicely — Update When we released Podman 4, we also released a new “network stack” that in large part was provided by netavark. At that time, a couple of features were missing for us to achieve parity with the previous network stack based on CNI Plugins. One key missing feature was…
I have yet to bump into perfect software. Bugs, failures, and short-comings are the reality of software developers. They often have upsides whether it might be learning about a new area of code in a larger application or coming up with ideas to prevent problems. We had an interesting problem brought to our attention recently…
We are pleased to announce the release of aardvark-dns and netavark v1.4.0. It has not been that long since the respective v1.3.0 releases but we had new function we wanted to get out into the community. In the aardvark-dns release, the key new function was provided by commit 01a9f18f411b9766e6476fc53c395844aa3cb62e which is titled add support for…
You might not know this but Podman has been running with less capabilities then Docker for a while now. Not only does Podman default to running rootless but even in rootless mode, it runs tighter then Docker. Docker runs with 14 root capabilities while Podman runs with 10. However, this has been via distribution defaults…
We recently added a new project called bootc to our Github containers organization! It is self-described as “Transactional, in-place operating system updates using OCI/Docker container images.” In an earlier blog, I described how you can use a standard Containerfile to build a bootable operating system for something like Fedora CoreOS. Bootc can then pull the…
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