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Podman 5

This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux.
This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.

Summary

Ship Podman 5 in Fedora 40.

Owner

Name: Lokesh Mandvekar, Mohan Boddu

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora Linux 40
Last updated: 2023-12-12
Announced
Discussion thread
FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

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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