Open Container Initiative (OCI hereafter) artifacts have been evolving with some significance lately. Projects like OCI Registry As Storage (ORAS) have been stalwarts in this arena. In fact, I think ORAS probably has the best explanation of artifacts. It is certainly worth a read if you are at all unfamiliar with the topic. In short,…| blog.podman.io
Last week we released Podman 5.6 and I wanted to provide an update on the Apple Rosetta situation I discussed in my June blog post. Current Status As we indicated in June, Podman 5.6 ships with Rosetta disabled by default due to the compatibility issues between Rosetta and Linux kernels 6.13 and above. This means […]|
We’re excited to announce the release of Podman 5.6, packed with significant new features and improvements that enhance the container management experience. This release brings substantial updates to Quadlet management, enhanced remote client capabilities, and numerous quality-of-life improvements. Quadlet Management One of the most significant additions in Podman 5.6 is the new suite of Quadlet […]|
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, […]|
Managing containers on Linux with Podman just got a new feature. If you’ve ever felt caught between running simple podman run commands and wrangling complex orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, you’re in for a treat. The latest version of Podman brings Quadlet management directly into its core with the new podman quadlet command suite, creating a […]|
We are excited to announce an upcoming change that will simplify and streamline development across several of our key libraries. We’re consolidating three of our major repositories into a sin…| blog.podman.io
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is gaining significant traction in AI. This protocol, supported by most large language model (LLM) providers, enhances an LLM’s capabilities, allowing it to m…| blog.podman.io
Hello Podman users, I wanted to make you aware of a problem our team has been having on Apple MacOS in the recent months. And no, this is not an Apple bashing opportunity; I simply want to be transparent and communicate this specific problem and how it impacts our users. Our Podman machine OS images […]|
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 rele…| blog.podman.io
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…| blog.podman.io
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 …| blog.podman.io
Open Container Initiative (OCI hereafter) artifacts have been evolving with some significance lately. Projects like OCI Registry As Storage (ORAS) have been stalwarts in this arena. In …| blog.podman.io
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 wh…| blog.podman.io
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 additio…| blog.podman.io
The Podman team introduced the support for Hyper-V with Podman version 4.8. With version 5.1, we updated the Podman Windows installer to allow Hyper-V configuration at installation time. This blog …| blog.podman.io
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 …| blog.podman.io
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 Po…| blog.podman.io
