With Podman 5 having recently been released, we have seen a lot of new adopters join the fray. When using brew, the one error that we are seeing reasonably commonly is: Error: vfkit exited unexpectedly with exit code 1 At one time in our development phases, we did see this error being triggered when the…
Podman version 5.0.0 has been released! It is our first major release in two years and includes several new features and significant changes. Podman version 5.0.0 is a very important release for Podman on Windows and Mac, featuring a complete rewrite of our code for those platforms and major improvements in hypervisor support on both…
Podman 5.0 is out, and with this also comes several breaking changes, but there is no reason to fear them; unless you are using podman machine, chances are you will not even notice them. Podman Machine The biggest breaking change is a major refactor for the podman machine config files. There is no migration from…
Last week, I mentioned that Podman 5 is right around the corner and that more specific posts, especially about Podman machine, would be forthcoming. One of the biggest questions we receive when discussing Podman 5 is about migration of its machines. What is the migration path? The simple answer is that there is no upgrade…
Containers.conf is our main configuration file for Podman, it holds various options to tweak the default Podman behavior. In this post you see the changes that we made to containers.conf with the Podman 5.0 release. The biggest change is making containers.conf read-only. Previously Podman modified the containers.conf file for storage of podman system connections and…
In the coming days, the upstream Podman project will be releasing a major new version: Podman 5.0. When we decide to change our major version, it is because of changes to our API API or how Podman interacts with users. It is also an inflection point for introducing new technologies, setting new defaults, and for…
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