diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/podman/conmon.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/podman/conmon.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..42907bc84ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/podman/conmon.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{ stdenv, lib, fetchFromGitHub, pkgconfig, glib }:
+
+with lib;
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "conmon-${version}";
+  version = "unstable-2018-11-28";
+  rev = "8fba206232c249a8fc4e2fac1469fb2fddbf5cf7";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "containers";
+    repo = "conmon";
+    sha256 = "07ar0dk9i072b14f6il51yqahxp5c4fkf5jzar8rxcpvymkdy8zq";
+    inherit rev;
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
+  buildInputs = [
+    glib
+  ];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    install -D -m 555 bin/conmon $out/bin/conmon
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = https://github.com/containers/conmon;
+    description = "An OCI container runtime monitor";
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ vdemeester ];
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/podman/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/podman/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..753fada5e7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/podman/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, pkgconfig
+, buildGoPackage, gpgme, lvm2, btrfs-progs, libseccomp
+}:
+
+buildGoPackage rec {
+  name = "podman-${version}";
+  version = "1.0.0";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "containers";
+    repo = "libpod";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "1py6vbmpm25j1gb51dn973pckvgjl9q63y9qyzszvc3q3wsxsqhw";
+  };
+
+  goPackagePath = "github.com/containers/libpod";
+
+  # Optimizations break compilation of libseccomp c bindings
+  hardeningDisable = [ "fortify" ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    btrfs-progs libseccomp gpgme lvm2
+  ];
+
+  buildPhase = ''
+    pushd $NIX_BUILD_TOP/go/src/${goPackagePath}
+    patchShebangs .
+    make binaries
+  '';
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    install -Dm555 bin/podman $bin/bin/podman
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://podman.io/;
+    description = "A program for managing pods, containers and container images";
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ vdemeester ];
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index bfc0e69bbf5..86670b31450 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4966,6 +4966,9 @@ in
 
   podiff = callPackage ../tools/text/podiff { };
 
+  podman = callPackage ../applications/virtualization/podman { };
+  conmon = callPackage ../applications/virtualization/podman/conmon.nix { };
+
   pod2mdoc = callPackage ../tools/misc/pod2mdoc { };
 
   poedit = callPackage ../tools/text/poedit { };