David Darrah
David Darrah has over 30 years of industry experience at companies like Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and Juniper Networks, He joined Red Hat in 2016 as the Contain Tools Quality Lead and transitioned last year into the role of Product Owner for both Container Tools and the Universal Base Image program.
Red Hat
Red Hat Container Tools Product Owner
Session
Podman 6.0, arriving in Spring 2026, marks a major milestone in modernizing the container ecosystem. This session explores the transition from legacy backends to a high-performance architecture, finalizing the removal of CNI plugins, Slirp4netns, and BoltDB in favor of Netavark, Pasta, and SQLite3. We will dive into the new client/server configuration logic designed to resolve long-standing UX friction on Windows and macOS.
A key highlight is the reimagined Podman Machine. We’ll discuss the shift toward a "provider-agnostic" CLI that resolves machine names regardless of the hypervisor , and the strategic adoption of libkrun as the default provider to enable GPU-accelerated AI and LLM workloads. Attendees will also learn about networking upgrades in Netavark, including the move to Nftables and improved network ordering. Join us to see how Podman 6.0 delivers a faster, more secure, and AI-ready environment.