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,…
In an earlier post, I talked about work that I was starting for Podman machine and its use of Microsoft HyperV. I’m pleased that my first pull request for that enablement was recently merged into Podman. At this point, it is really just about the basics of machine like: creation, removal, start, and stop. >…
Podman runs Linux containers, which depend on a Linux operating system. This means that if a user is on a Mac or Windows, Podman needs to run inside a VM. Most of the time, a standard install of Podman machine just works out of the box. However, when something goes wrong, the complexity of the…
I have been working on adding HyperV as a supported virtualization option for Podman machine. Within the next couple of weeks, I will be looking for folks to test my progress and shake out as many bugs as possible before the code is officially released. If you are familiar with Podman machine and have experience…
We recently added a new project called bootc to our Github containers organization! It is self-described as “Transactional, in-place operating system updates using OCI/Docker container images.” In an earlier blog, I described how you can use a standard Containerfile to build a bootable operating system for something like Fedora CoreOS. Bootc can then pull the…
Developers are always asking us about how to customize Podman machine to add or subtract content. Up until recently, the answer has always been to use the cosa tooling to create the operating system and a qcow image. The process is not particularly difficult but it does help to have fast disk I/O […]
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