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Top 23 Shell Podman Projects
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winapps
Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. Hard fork of https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps/
Project mention: Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-24What percentage of MS Office user can, in your estimation, complete the steps as described in this readme?
https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps
I'd estimate <1%
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AppSignal
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Project mention: Run GUI applications and desktops in Docker and Podman containers | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-23
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simplenetes
The sns tool is used to manage the full life cycle of your Simplenetes clusters. It integrates with the Simplenetes Podcompiler project podc to compile pods.
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freeipa-container
FreeIPA server in containers — images at https://quay.io/repository/freeipa/freeipa-server?tab=tags
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SaaSHub
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resolve
Container scripts to build and run DaVinci Resolve [Studio] for Linux using Docker or Podman
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Fedora-Guide
Fedora/CentOS Stream/Red Hat Enterprise Linux Guide. Including Security tools, Encryption, Virtualization, Gaming, Software Apps, and Resources.
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podman-caddy-socket-activation
Demo of how to run socket-activated caddy with Podman. Source IP address is preserved.
Project mention: Production-Grade Container Deployment with Podman Quadlets – Larvitz Blog | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-16I use socket activation instead of running reverse proxy with `CAP_NET_BIND`. Caddy supports socket binding, and can handle SSL certs. I now just log-in every week or so and run `journalctl --user -f --since "2025-11-09" --grep "error"` to check for anything going on.
https://github.com/eriksjolund/podman-caddy-socket-activatio...
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podman-security-bench
Podman Security is a script that checks for dozens of common best-practices around deploying Podman containers in production. The tests are all automated, and are based on the CIS Docker Benchmark v1.3.1.
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podman-nginx-socket-activation
Demo of how to run socket-activated nginx with Podman. Source IP address is preserved.
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UDMPRO-samba
Docker container script to use the UDM Pro drive bay as a SMB network drive (by thealpa)
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Project mention: A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-28
I've contributed to https://github.com/0xferrous/agent-box which allows you to bind-mount git repositories into containers that agents operate in. Your usual .gitignore can then be used to ignore files to be bind-mounted, which preventa agents from accessing them at all.
I've also created https://github.com/nothingnesses/agent-images which allows you to use Nix to reproducibly spin up OCI containers containing agents and use these with agents-box.
I use both at the moment to work on some personal projects with agents, where I set up multiple separate git worktrees for the agents to work in and that prevents them from trampling over each other's work.
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SaaSHub
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Podman projects in Shell? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | winapps | 16,046 |
| 2 | x11docker | 6,326 |
| 3 | unifi-common | 4,372 |
| 4 | simplenetes | 764 |
| 5 | freeipa-container | 706 |
| 6 | zwift | 679 |
| 7 | jetson-image | 590 |
| 8 | zerotier-docker | 406 |
| 9 | resolve | 299 |
| 10 | phpctl | 296 |
| 11 | Fedora-Guide | 257 |
| 12 | kubler | 165 |
| 13 | virt | 155 |
| 14 | podman-caddy-socket-activation | 154 |
| 15 | snc | 105 |
| 16 | EX188-practice | 71 |
| 17 | podman-security-bench | 65 |
| 18 | podman-nginx-socket-activation | 63 |
| 19 | gnome-shell-pod | 58 |
| 20 | UDMPRO-samba | 52 |
| 21 | agent-images | 46 |
| 22 | podman-desktop | 28 |
| 23 | wine-container | 23 |
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