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author | Matthew Heon <mheon@redhat.com> | 2022-02-17 15:14:27 -0500 |
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committer | Matthew Heon <mheon@redhat.com> | 2022-02-17 15:22:21 -0500 |
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Update release notes with v4.0.0 additions
Signed-off-by: Matthew Heon <mheon@redhat.com>
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Podman (the POD MANager) is a tool for managing containers and images, volumes mounted into those containers, and pods made from groups of containers. Podman is based on libpod, a library for container lifecycle management that is also contained in this repository. The libpod library provides APIs for managing containers, pods, container images, and volumes. -* [Latest Version: 3.4.0](https://github.com/containers/podman/releases/latest) +* [Latest Version: 4.0.0](https://github.com/containers/podman/releases/latest) * Latest Remote client for Windows * Latest Remote client for macOS * Latest Static Remote client for Linux @@ -20,21 +20,21 @@ At a high level, the scope of Podman and libpod is the following: * Support for multiple container image formats, including OCI and Docker images. * Full management of those images, including pulling from various sources (including trust and verification), creating (built via Containerfile or Dockerfile or committed from a container), and pushing to registries and other storage backends. * Full management of container lifecycle, including creation (both from an image and from an exploded root filesystem), running, checkpointing and restoring (via CRIU), and removal. +* Full management of container networking, using CNI, Netavark, and slirp4netns * Support for pods, groups of containers that share resources and are managed together. * Support for running containers and pods without root or other elevated privileges. * Resource isolation of containers and pods. * Support for a Docker-compatible CLI interface. * No manager daemon, for improved security and lower resource utilization at idle. * Support for a REST API providing both a Docker-compatible interface and an improved interface exposing advanced Podman functionality. -* In the future, integration with [CRI-O](https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o) to share containers and backend code. Podman presently only supports running containers on Linux. However, we are building a remote client which can run on Windows and macOS and manage Podman containers on a Linux system via the REST API using SSH tunneling. ## Roadmap 1. Further improvements to the REST API, with a focus on bugfixes and implementing missing functionality -1. Integrate libpod into [CRI-O](https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o) to replace its existing container management backend 1. Improvements on rootless containers, with a focus on improving the user experience and exposing presently-unavailable features when possible +1. Improvements to Pods, including the addition of pod-level resource limits ## Communications @@ -74,14 +74,14 @@ A little configuration by an administrator is required before rootless Podman ca ## OCI Projects Plans -The plan is to use OCI projects and best of breed libraries for different aspects: +Podman uses OCI projects and best of breed libraries for different aspects: - Runtime: We use the [OCI runtime tools](https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-tools) to generate OCI runtime configurations that can be used with any OCI-compliant runtime, like [crun](https://github.com/containers/crun/) and [runc](https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/). - Images: Image management uses the [containers/image](https://github.com/containers/image) library. - Storage: Container and image storage is managed by [containers/storage](https://github.com/containers/storage). -- Networking: Networking support through use of [CNI](https://github.com/containernetworking/cni). +- Networking: Networking support through use of [Netavark](https://github.com/containers/netavark) and [Aardvark](https://github.com/containers/aardvark-dns). Support for [CNI](https://github.com/containernetworking/cni) is also available. Rootless networking is handled via [slirp4netns](https://github.com/rootless-containers/slirp4netns). - Builds: Builds are supported via [Buildah](https://github.com/containers/buildah). - Conmon: [Conmon](https://github.com/containers/conmon) is a tool for monitoring OCI runtimes, used by both Podman and CRI-O. -- Seccomp: A unified [Seccomp](https://github.com/seccomp/containers-golang) policy for Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O. +- Seccomp: A unified [Seccomp](https://github.com/containers/common/blob/main/pkg/seccomp/seccomp.json) policy for Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O. ## Podman Information for Developers |