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…
I’m excited to announce that Podman will be moving to timed releases. From now on, new Podman releases will be made on the second week of every February, May, August, and November. This consistent schedule will make integrating Podman with other projects like Podman Desktop easier and aligns with the RHEL release schedule. Patch releases…
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…
Anyone mildly familiar with Ansible will attest, maintaining idempotency is a key secret-sauce to stable automation. Without idempotency, it’s all but impossible to detect drift and/or predictably manage state changes. Similarly, anyone beyond a complete-beginning Podman user, will know that defining and using volumes are essential operations. Now for the problem: In Ansible-land, the template…
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 version 5.0.0 has been released! It is our first major release in two years and includes several new features and significant changes. Podman version 5.0.0 is a very important release for Podman on Windows and Mac, featuring a complete rewrite of our code for those platforms and major improvements in hypervisor support on both…
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