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.

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

• Rust
• Podman 4.0+

$ make

$ make test

Also see ./test for more information.

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.