Buildah is a CLI tool for building OCI container images without a long-running daemon. It is commonly used with Podman and CI systems where rootless or daemonless workflows are preferred.
- Rootless or daemonless image builds
- CI pipelines that avoid Docker socket exposure
- OCI-compliant image production workflows
- Build from Dockerfile/Containerfile or low-level CLI steps
- Integration with containers/image and containers/storage stack
- Compatible with Podman and common registries
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- OCI image tooling libraries
- Active open-source project
- Latest release line includes v1.43.1 (released April 8, 2026)
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