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1.10.3 | Feb 10, 2024 |
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1.9.0 | Nov 27, 2023 |
1.6.0 | May 1, 2023 |
1.4.0 | Dec 7, 2022 |
1.0.4-dev | Jul 4, 2022 |
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netavark: A container network stack
Netavark is a rust based network stack for containers. It is being designed to work with Podman but is also applicable for other OCI container management applications.
Overview and scope
Netavark is a tool for configuring networking for Linux containers. Its features include:
- Configuration of container networks via JSON configuration file
- Creation and management of required network interfaces, including MACVLAN networks
- All required firewall configuration to perform NAT and port forwarding as required for containers
- Support for iptables and firewalld at present, with support for nftables planned in a future release
- Support for rootless containers
- Support for IPv4 and IPv6
- Support for container DNS resolution via the aardvark-dns project
Requires
Build
$ make
Test
$ make test
Also see ./test for more information.
Communications
For general questions and discussion, please use Podman's channels.
For discussions around issues/bugs and features, you can use the GitHub issues and PRs tracking system.
Plugins
Netavark also supports executing external plugins, see ./plugin-API.md.
Dependencies
~27–42MB
~712K SLoC