I love containers, it's really cool technology to preserve and distribute environments. To manage containers I prefer podman and its friends buildah and skopeo. podman 4 introduced many cool features but it's unavailable in Ubuntu 22.04 which is my primary OS, the latest version there is 3.4.4. Thus, I decided to backport podman from Debian Testing where it's already packaged by mighty Debian maintainers.

During add-on development I use Kodi installed on my operating system for testing. But what if I need to test my changes on various Kodi versions? It's not so easy to install different versions of a package on such distros as Ubuntu. We could try some Kodi container image but I decided to build my own.