Buildah

Category : Containers, GitOps & CI/CD

Rootless container image builder supporting Containerfiles and OCI images.

What is this technology for?

Its role in production environments and why it is taught in our curriculums.

Buildah builds OCI-compliant container images without a daemon and without root, using standard Containerfiles or shell scripts — ideal for CI/CD pipelines.

What you will learn

The hands-on skills you will gain on this technology in our curriculums.

Build container images from Containerfiles
Build images using shell scripts and layers
Inspect and manage image layers
Integrate Buildah into CI/CD pipelines

Latest News & Ecosystem Updates

Recent innovations, major releases, and key industry milestones in the ecosystem.

Container Build 2026-04

Buildah v1.38: Distributed Multi-Stage Caching & Native SPDX SBOM

Automated Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation during unprivileged rootless container image builds.

CI/CD Integration 2026-01

Optimized Integration in Tekton Pipelines Without Docker Daemons

Ultra-fast, fully secure OCI container builds executed inside ephemeral Kubernetes pods.

Featured in the curriculum

Find this technology in the following modules of our Red Hat certified curriculums.

AS200 — New DevOps Platform Engineer

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Podman & Containers

DO188 · Module 1 — AS200

AS300 — AI Platform Engineer

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Podman & Containers

DO188 · Module 1 — AS300

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