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Podman 6 Configuration File Changes
Podman 6 is about to be released soon, so I would like to talk about the biggest change we made: a major rework of how we handle and parse our configuration files. This does not just affect Podman but also Buildah, Skopeo, and many other tools building on top of our underlying go.podman.io/image and go.podman.io/storage…
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Podman 6 Release Delayed
As we draw close to the release of Podman 6, our developers have been working hard to get the features we committed to last year as part of our High Level Design ready and merged upstream. Unfortunately, it is taking longer than expected. In particular, several important features (including a rework of our configuration file…
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Podman Standups!
The standups are coming, the standups are coming! Come one, come all to the Podman Standup Meetings! For the past many years, the Podman team at Red Hat has held standup meetings on Mondays at 10:00 a.m. Eastern, and also on Thursdays at 11:00 a.m. Eastern. (Currently UTC-4, then UTC-5 once the USA goes to…
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Closing the Performance Gap: Automating Podman Benchmarks Across Linux, macOS, and Windows
“It works on my machine” is a dangerous phrase in our line of work. While Podman runs natively on Linux, utilizing the kernel directly, the experience on macOS and Windows is different. These platforms require a virtual machine to provide the necessary Linux environment. This virtualization layer introduces overhead that often leads to user complaints…
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Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo import paths
Several of the containers projects are going to change their go import paths. Some of this work had been when we made the monorepo container-libs; where we moved storage, common, and image into a singular repository. The moves that are taking place now are not nearly as extreme and the motivations are also different. We…
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