In this post, I am going to share my journey as an LFX Mentee. I worked with the Podman Container Tools organization to solve a specific networking issue in Netavark using Rust. What is LFX Mentorship? It is a remote program organized by the Linux Foundation. It is designed to help people start contributing to…

Netavark 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.…

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…

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…

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…

As Brent announced Netavark v1.6 with DHCP support is released, together with podman v4.5 you can now use DHCP with your macvlan networks in only a few simple steps. In order to use macvlan and DHCP you must run Podman as root. First enable the dhcp proxy via systemd socket: Now just create a macvlan…

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!

Today we cut new releases of the network stack components for netavark and aardvark-dns. Both netavark and aardvark-dns versions 1.3.0 were released. As the process works, the upstream releases will slowly work their way into Linux distributions. A basic summary of changes for both are as follows: v1.3.0 Netavark v1.3.0 Aardvark-dns
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