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@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@  -# libpod - library for running OCI-based containers in Pods -### Latest Version: 0.12.1 -### Status: Active Development +# Library and tool for running OCI-based containers in Pods -### Continuous Integration: [](https://cirrus-ci.com/github/containers/libpod) +Libpod provides a library for applications looking to use the Container Pod concept, +popularized by Kubernetes. libpod also contains the `podman` tool, for managing +Pods, Containers, and Container Images. -## What is the scope of this project? +* [Latest Version: 0.12.1](https://github.com/containers/libpod/releases/latest) +* [Continuous Integration:](contrib/cirrus/README.md) [](https://cirrus-ci.com/github/containers/libpod/master) -libpod provides a library for applications looking to use the Container Pod concept popularized by Kubernetes. -libpod also contains a tool called podman for managing Pods, Containers, and Container Images. +## Overview and scope At a high level, the scope of libpod and podman is the following: @@ -19,11 +19,22 @@ At a high level, the scope of libpod and podman is the following: * Full management of container lifecycle * Support for pods to manage groups of containers together * Resource isolation of containers and pods. +* Integration with CRI-O to share containers and backend code. -## What is not in scope for this project? +## Roadmap -* Signing and pushing images to various image storages. See [Skopeo](https://github.com/containers/skopeo/). -* Container Runtimes daemons for working with Kubernetes CRIs. See [CRI-O](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-o). We are working to integrate libpod into CRI-O to share containers and backend code with Podman. +1. Python frontend for Varlink API +1. Integrate libpod into CRI-O to replace its existing container management backend +1. Further work on the podman pod command +1. Further improvements on rootless containers +1. In-memory locking to replace file locks + +## Out of scope + +* Signing and pushing images to various image storages. + See [Skopeo](https://github.com/containers/skopeo/). +* Container Runtimes daemons for working with Kubernetes CRIs. + See [CRI-O](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-o). ## OCI Projects Plans @@ -68,14 +79,6 @@ Release notes for recent Podman versions **[Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md)** Information about contributing to this project. -## Current Roadmap - -1. Python frontend for Varlink API -1. Integrate libpod into CRI-O to replace its existing container management backend -1. Further work on the podman pod command -1. Further improvements on rootless containers -1. In-memory locking to replace file locks - [spec-hooks]: https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/blob/v2.0.1/config.md#posix-platform-hooks ## Buildah and Podman relationship |