
As you may have already seen elsewhere, we have applied to contribute Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Joining the CNCF will help us keep building each of these project’s commitments to open source, transparency, and community involvement. The engineering team you already know will keep working on the projects…

Greetings! We are happy to announce new releases of netavark and aardvark-dns v1.13. For those unfamiliar with these projects, they make up the network stack for the Podman. In addition to a slew of code update in the form of dependencies, you can look at the specific changes by checking out the release notes for…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

We recently branched Podman 4.8 for a soon to be release. But the big news is our main branch is now 5.0.0-dev. For our users, this means a new major version of Podman has begun its genesis. What can users expect? We plan to begin releases of Podman 5.0.0 in early 2024. At this point,…

I am pleased to announce new versions of netavark and aardvark-dns. There were lots of dependency updates (libraries) for each project. Netavark now also has preliminary support for DHCP and MacVLAN as well as the ability to write your own plugins. Good stuff!

In an earlier post, I talked about work that I was starting for Podman machine and its use of Microsoft HyperV. I’m pleased that my first pull request for that enablement was recently merged into Podman. At this point, it is really just about the basics of machine like: creation, removal, start, and stop. >…
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