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 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…
User namespaces and capabilities are important kernel functionality to make containers secure. They allow to better isolate containers and limit the privileges a container might have. A while back a user reported a bug where some odd behavior was noticed when namespaces are shared between containers which could lead to security problems. Lets take closer…
We’re excited to announce that Podman v4.8.0 has been released! This release includes over 20 features and over 20 bugfixes each. Some highlights include: For a full list of changes, see our GitHub release page. Big thanks to our contributors and community! Try it out and let us know what you think! Upcoming Deprecation Notices:…
One longstanding problem with Podman is that your rootful containers may loose network connectivity after a while. For many users it is not be obvious what is causing such problems. Netavark configures NAT and port forwarding firewall rules. When another process is deleting our firewall rules the containers will loose connectivity. One such process is…
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,…
As written in an earlier blog by Brent we are going to replace the older CNI stack Netavark and Aardvark-dns. With Podman 5.0 on the horizon we have decided that it will be the perfect time to drop CNI support from our upstream builds. As mentioned in the prior blog post we will most likely…
We’re excited to announce that Podman v4.7.0 has been released! This release includes over 40 features and over 30 bugfixes. Some highlights include: For a full list of features, bugfixes and changes, check out the v4.7.0 release page. Try it out and let us know what you think!
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