# Podman 6 Configuration File Changes

DevFeed: [Podman 6 Configuration File Changes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/podman-6-configuration-file-changes-12845.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.podman.io/2026/06/podman-6-configuration-file-changes/>)

Author: Paul Holzinger

Published: 2026-06-22T16:14:55Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [blog.podman.io](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-podman-io.md>)

Topics: [podman](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/podman.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [Containers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/containers.md>)

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## AI overview

This article introduces the major configuration-file rework planned for Podman 6. The changes affect Podman, Buildah, Skopeo, and shared container libraries, including how files such as containers.conf, registries.conf, storage.conf, policy.json, registries.d, and certs.d are handled and parsed.

## Source excerpt

Podman 6 is about to be released soon, so I would like to talk about the biggest change we made: a major rework of how we handle and parse our configuration files. This does not just affect Podman but also Buildah, Skopeo, and many other tools building on top of our underlying go.podman.io/image and go.podman.io/storage [...]