Latest revision as of 20:37, 28 February 2024

Podman 5

Summary

Ship Podman 5 in Fedora 40.

Owner

Name: Lokesh Mandvekar, Mohan Boddu

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora Linux 40
Last updated: 2024-02-28
Announced
Discussion thread
FESCo issue: #3126
Tracker bug: #2258071
Release notes tracker: #1096

Detailed Description

Feedback

Benefit to Fedora

Podman 5 will:

No longer support cgroups v1
Deprecate CNI plugins
Deprecate Boltdb
Have passt as the default rootless network service instead of slirp4netns
Support stable --format Go template structs
Isolate podman bindings leading to improved usability
Allow better handling of containers.conf

Scope

Proposal owners:

Other developers:

Release engineering: #Releng issue number

Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Alignment with Community Initiatives:

Upgrade/compatibility impact

Podman 5 will come with breaking changes affecting upgradability:

CGroups v1 environments will be required to switch to CGroups v2
CNI plugin environemnts will need to switch to netavark
Changes in --format Go template structs

How To Test

Probably best handled in a Podman Test Day aligned with Fedora 40 Test Days.

Install Fedora 40
Install Podman 5
Run test cases / suite (TBD)

User Experience

Podman 5 will provide better usability of Podman bindings, easier to maintain containers.conf and other configuration files along with database performance improvements and CLI enhancements.

Dependencies

Projects / Packages likely to be affected:

Cockpit
CoreOS
Toolbox
Silverblue / Kinoite
Podman Desktop

Contingency Plan

Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release Notes

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