2025-03-30 –, The Waterloo
Containers are a fundamental part of cloud-native workloads today and are set to evolve to meet the needs of tomorrow. Projects like Podman are at the center of this innovation for container technologies. That is why, while already a popular project with a strong user base, Podman, Podman Desktop and other containers tools have been submitted for contribution at the Sandbox level in the CNCF community. A lot of exciting things are happening and this session will give you everything you need to know!
We will also give an overview of the latest accomplishments and capabilities we have been driving during the year - as well as looking forward on our roadmaps and how you can get involved.
We will discuss how you can leverage these tools in different contexts, from cloud deployments to the Edge, automotive and AI - you’ll learn how you can best benefit the technology. You should expect a lot of demos during this talk to level up your container development workflows!
This session will feature a brand new group of freshly announced CNCF Sandbox projects: Podman, Skopeo, Bootc, Buildah and Podman Desktop. These projects expand the ecosystem's container technology offerings, providing new runtime and workflow options. Their innovative features, like daemonless operation and rootless containers, align with CNCF's focus on advancing secure and modern container technologies. Additionally, Podman’s seamless integration with Kubernetes and other CNCF projects enhances the ecosystem’s cohesion, offering users robust and flexible container management solutions and easy transition to Kubernetes.
This session will continue to expand the message of the need for the community to work together on building innovation in the container spaces especially in favor of developers and will be an invitation to collaborate.
Stevan is Product Manager for Red Hat, focused on developer tools and cloud technologies, working on Podman Desktop. Driven by the belief that great applications could be built only in exceptional development environments, Stevan closely works with customers and upstream communities chasing any opportunities to simplify developers' life.
Mark is a product manager on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux team, where he specializes in Podman, Edge, and RHEL CoreOS. Passionate about cloud-native technology and community, Mark enjoys discussing user-defined appliances, the future of container engines, and punk rock. He lives in Queens, NY.