Podman 6.0 — The Next Evolution of Rootless Containerization
summary
Podman 6.0 replaces CNI, slirp4netns and BoltDB with Netavark, Pasta and SQLite3, moves networking to nftables, supports multiple IPs per container, and implements kernel NAT for faster rootless networking. Podman Machine becomes provider-agnostic, resolves machines by name, syncs host CA certs on boot and preserves host container config mounts. libkrun is adopted as the default provider to enable GPU‑accelerated AI/LLM workloads, commits pause containers for consistent images, and Conmon V3 improves logging and memory use.
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- 0:00Podman introduction
- 1:05Podman 6 as CNCF project
- 2:51Podman 6 goals and changes
- 3:57Code cleanup and deprecated features removed
- 5:22Unified config workflow
- 7:27Config file precedence
- 9:13Podman Machine updates
- 10:57Security in Podman 6
- 12:45Post-quantum cryptography
- 13:47Netavark adoption
- 15:17Rootless networking with pasta
- 16:19SQLite as backend
- 17:26Buildah and Conmon updates
- 18:49Release timeline
- 20:15Where to find Podman 6
- 21:26Q&A
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