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podman-container-tools
buildah
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podman-container-tools / buildah

buildah

A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

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28Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
9.2KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:45:45 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year28 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-08-27 03:42:18 UTC to 2026-04-23 18:44:01 UTC.

0123452017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404

What Hacker News says

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hardwaresofton·Jul 23, 2019
It has to do also with the use of user namespaces (LXC also does this). User namespaces (user/group id mapping) + userspace file systems (FUSE) is what enables building & running containers without root. Unfortunately the documentation is not really there yet[0], but that's the gist of how it's more secure outside of the general reduction-of-responsibility ways that others have mentioned. [0]: https://github.com/containers/buildah/issues/1469#issuecomme...
In Dockerless, part 3: Moving development environment to containers with Podman
rmk2·Mar 10, 2019
Podman doesn't have a daemon like Docker does. It also more tightly integrates with buildah, which the article doesn't expand on. Have a look at this (very brief) overview to get a bit better idea of their relationship: https://github.com/containers/buildah#buildah-and-podman-rel... Podman also uses the same notion of pods, and it doesn't support docker-compose syntax/files, because RedHat strongly believes that Kubernetes has already won. Basically, podman/podlib allow you an easy migration path from your local computer to a k8s cluster, with the same images and same concepts. Have a look here: https://github.com/containers/buildah#buildah-and-podman-rel...
In Goodbye Docker and Thanks for all the Fish

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