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Podman 5.6 Released
Read more: Podman 5.6 ReleasedWe’re excited to announce the release of Podman 5.6, packed with significant new features and improvements that enhance the container management experience. This release brings substantial updates to Quadlet management, enhanced remote client capabilities, and numerous quality-of-life improvements. Quadlet Management One of the most significant additions in Podman 5.6 is the new suite of Quadlet…
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Unlocking Speed: Accelerating Parallel Layer Removal in Podman v5.6
Read more: Unlocking Speed: Accelerating Parallel Layer Removal in Podman v5.6Container images are fundamentally structured as a series of read-only layers, with a writable layer typically added on top when a container instance is created. This layered architecture facilitates efficient storage and distribution by allowing multiple images to share common base layers. However, removing a layer, especially one that multiple images or containers might reference,…
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Managing Containers with the Model Context Protocol
Read more: Managing Containers with the Model Context ProtocolThe 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…
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Podman and Apple Rosetta
Read more: Podman and Apple RosettaHello 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…
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Podman 5.5 RC1 release
Read more: Podman 5.5 RC1 releaseThe 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…
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Customize your Podman Machine with Ansible Playbooks
Read more: Customize your Podman Machine with Ansible PlaybooksWith 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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Recent artifact additions in Podman
Read more: Recent artifact additions in PodmanIn my previous blog about OCI artifacts, I outlined several new, experimental commands that had been added to Podman. Those commands (Linux only, remote is not supported currently) are now included in the Podman v5.4 release. If you run Podman on Linux, check them out and help us exercise the functionality. We also had two…
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Netavark 1.14 new features
Read more: Netavark 1.14 new featuresNetavark and Aardvark-dns v1.14 are out. Thanks to our contributors, the Netavark release is on the bigger side and did get quite a few features. So let’s have a look; all the features assume that you are also using Podman v5.4 DHCP Hostname Netavark now sends the container hostname as part of the DHCP request.…
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Podman introduces support for OCI artifacts
Read more: Podman introduces support for OCI artifactsOpen Container Initiative (OCI hereafter) artifacts have been evolving with some significance lately. Projects like OCI Registry As Storage (ORAS) have been stalwarts in this arena. In fact, I think ORAS probably has the best explanation of artifacts. It is certainly worth a read if you are at all unfamiliar with the topic. In short,…
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Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Read more: Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo and the Cloud Native Computing FoundationAs 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…
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