Podman

Introduction As everyone, we are evolving and we are including AI into several workflows, so it’s essential having a way to pass data to the AI from various types of files. This is where Microsoft’s MarkItDown comes in as a powerful tool. It’s a lightweight Python utility that converts numerous file formats into Markdown, a format easily consumable by AI models. Whether you want to use it with an AI assistant like Claude through its MCP server, as a CLI tool, with Python code, or run it in a container, MarkItDown offers a lot of flexibility. ...

Using Podman as the standard tool requested by clients for running local containers outside of a Kubernetes environment, I decided to start the year by installing Podman Desktop on my company MacBook. Podman Desktop features a user interface (UI) similar to Docker Desktop, making it easier to manage containers and images. It also includes plugin management to extend its functionality, such as deploying containers on Kubernetes. After installing Podman Desktop version 1.15.0, I proceeded with the setup but encountered issues with the Podman machine (the virtual machine dedicated to running containers) which failed to start. There were no errors; it just hung during startup. ...

CyberArk Conjur is released as an appliance and distributed as container images to enable fast, error-free setup. The supported container runtimes include: Docker 20.10 or later Mirantis Container Runtime 20.10 Podman 3.x, 4.x While working with multiple Conjur environments in our labs and at customer sites, we noticed that log rotation (for Conjur, Nginx, cluster, etc.) did not function correctly on Podman, although it worked as expected on Docker. After some investigation with the excellent CyberArk support team, we identified the solution: ...

As I wrote in my last post, CyberArk Conjur is an enterprise secrets manager. , CyberArk Conjur is an enterprise secrets manager. In this post, I’ll provide an architecture overview along with the main system requirements. Conjur is currently available in two versions: Enterprise and open source (known as OSS). A “cloud” version will be available soon, offered as a SaaS solution. This post focuses on the Enterprise version, which is similar but not identical to the OSS version. ...