add community provider for podman

[kuju63]

Add the Podman Provider as a community provider.
Podman is a Docker-compatible container tool, but it does not behave identically unless you explicitly enable Docker-compatible helper tools.
This Provider is natively supported by Podman and offers higher affinity with Podman than using the Docker Provider.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

A new Podman provider entry is added to the community providers list in both the provider registry configuration and documentation. The provider repository URL is https://github.com/kuju63/devpod-provider-podman.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Community Provider Registration community.yaml, docs/pages/managing-providers/add-provider.mdx	Added Podman as a new community provider entry, registering it in both the provider registry and updating the community providers documentation list.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~3 minutes

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title 'add community provider for podman' directly and clearly summarizes the main change: adding a Podman community provider to the devpod project.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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✨ Finishing touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Post copyable unit tests in a comment

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Actionable comments posted: 1

🤖 Fix all issues with AI agents

In `@community.yaml`:
- Line 12: The community.yaml contains a repository entry pointing to a
non-existent GitHub repo (the repository field value
"https://github.com/kuju63/devpod-provider-podman"); either remove that whole
repository entry from community.yaml or replace the repository field with the
correct, existing GitHub URL for the devpod-provider-podman provider so loading
doesn’t fail—update the repository key value accordingly and ensure the provider
name matches any other references in the file.

[coderabbitai]

⚠️ Potential issue | 🔴 Critical

🧩 Analysis chain

🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
# Check if the GitHub repository exists and has releases with provider.yaml
gh api repos/kuju63/devpod-provider-podman --jq '.full_name, .description, .default_branch' 2>&1
echo "---"
# Check latest release assets
gh api repos/kuju63/devpod-provider-podman/releases/latest --jq '.tag_name, (.assets[].name)' 2>&1

Repository: skevetter/devpod

Length of output: 349

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🌐 Web query:

kuju63 devpod-provider-podman GitHub repository

💡 Result:

I couldn’t find any public GitHub repository named devpod-provider-podman under the user kuju63 (or elsewhere) via web search.

The only GitHub content I can reliably confirm for kuju63 from search results is a GitHub Gist (not a repo). [1]

If you have a direct link (or if the repo is private/renamed/deleted), paste it here and I’ll verify it.

Sources:
[1] (gist.github.com)

Citations:

• 1: https://gist.github.com/a775f33b9534c021debce7f68fc9dc88?utm_source=openai

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Remove this entry or verify the correct repository URL.

The repository at https://github.com/kuju63/devpod-provider-podman does not exist as a public GitHub repository. This entry cannot be used by DevPod users and will cause failures when attempting to load the provider.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents

In `@community.yaml` at line 12, The community.yaml contains a repository entry
pointing to a non-existent GitHub repo (the repository field value
"https://github.com/kuju63/devpod-provider-podman"); either remove that whole
repository entry from community.yaml or replace the repository field with the
correct, existing GitHub URL for the devpod-provider-podman provider so loading
doesn’t fail—update the repository key value accordingly and ensure the provider
name matches any other references in the file.

[kuju63]

This is public repository and exist on GitHub.

[coderabbitai]

🧩 Analysis chain

🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
# Check if the repository exists and get basic information
echo "=== Repository Information ==="
gh api repos/kuju63/devpod-provider-podman --jq '{name: .name, full_name: .full_name, private: .private, description: .description, created_at: .created_at, default_branch: .default_branch}' 2>&1

echo -e "\n=== Latest Release ==="
gh api repos/kuju63/devpod-provider-podman/releases/latest --jq '{tag_name: .tag_name, published_at: .published_at, assets: [.assets[].name]}' 2>&1

echo -e "\n=== Check for provider.yaml in main branch ==="
gh api repos/kuju63/devpod-provider-podman/contents/provider.yaml --jq '.name, .size' 2>&1 || echo "provider.yaml not found or error accessing it"

echo -e "\n=== Repository Structure ==="
gh api repos/kuju63/devpod-provider-podman/contents --jq '.[].name' 2>&1 | head -20

Length of output: 533

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@kuju63, you're absolutely correct! I apologize for the incorrect review comment.

The repository does exist and is public. I've verified:

✅ Repository: kuju63/devpod-provider-podman
✅ Status: Public
✅ Created: February 5, 2026
✅ Latest Release: v0.2.1 (published February 8, 2026)
✅ Provider Configuration: provider.yaml present (21 KB)

The repository has the proper structure for a DevPod provider. Your addition to the community providers list is valid and ready to go. Thank you for creating this Podman provider for the community!

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(='.'=)  Sorry for the confusion!
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