
I wanted to introduce a significant change we are making in Podman 6 for our machine function. To understand the problem and change, we first need to establish that Podman machine is based on a concept of providers. The provider is a generic term that describes how Podman runs the Linux virtual machine. The following…

Podman 6 development is under way. Last week, we began the release process for Podman 5.7. At the same time, we switched our main branch over to version `6.0.0-dev`. We anticipate delivering Podman 6 in early 2026. Learn more by following our upstream development for the exciting changes and expect more from us as we…
Container 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,…

Yesterday our team released a new version of Podman: Podman-5.5.1. This release is a bug fix release only and fixed about a dozen or so problems including two in our RESTFul API. Check out the release notes for specifics on what was changed. You can also download installers and binaries from the release page as…

The 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…

With 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,…
In 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…

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.…

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…

Use pasta’s –map-guest-addr option As of Podman 5.0 we default to “pasta” as a rootless networking application to provide network connectivity for rootless containers. Compared to our previous default, slirp4netns, pasta works a bit differently. For instance, pasta, by default, does not use Network Address Translation (NAT). This means it will copy the host address…
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