containers
7 Tools
The Containers project is a Red Hat-originated open-source organization that develops the daemonless, rootless alternative to Docker's container toolchain, building core OCI-compliant infrastructure for creating, running, and distributing containers on Linux. Its tools ship as integral components of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora. In January 2025, Red Hat donated the project's key tools to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to establish vendor-neutral community governance.
Tools
Daemonless, rootless container engine offering drop-in compatibility with the Docker command line.
Serves AI models locally by pulling them as OCI containers and running hardware-accelerated inference, no Python setup.
Terminal UI for managing Podman containers, pods, images, networks, and volumes from the command line.
Python client bindings that talk to the Podman container engine over its REST API.
Ansible modules, roles, and plugins for managing Podman containers from playbooks.
Podman Desktop extension for running local LLMs in containers, from model discovery to inference and chat.
Example cookbook for running LLM services locally in Podman containers, covering RAG, chatbots, and code assistants.