podman
Overview
The podman driver is an alternative container runtime to the Docker driver.
Requirements
- Install podman
Experimental
This is an experimental driver. Please use it only for experimental reasons until it has reached maturity. For a more reliable minikube experience, use a non-experimental driver, like Docker.
Usage
It’s recommended to run minikube with the podman driver and CRI-O container runtime:
minikube start --driver=podman --container-runtime=cri-o
Alternatively, start minikube with the podman driver only:
minikube start --driver=podman
To make podman the default driver:
minikube config set driver podman
Known Issues
- On Linux, Podman requires passwordless running of sudo. If you run into an error about sudo, do the following:
$ sudo visudo
Then append the following to the section at the very bottom of the file where username
is your user account.
username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/podman
Be sure this text is after #includedir /etc/sudoers.d
. To confirm it worked, try:
sudo -k -n podman version
- On all other operating systems, make sure to create and start the virtual machine that is needed for Podman.
podman machine init --cpus 2 --memory 2048 --disk-size 20
podman machine start
podman system connection default podman-machine-default-root
podman info
Troubleshooting
- Run
minikube start --alsologtostderr -v=7
to debug errors and crashes
Last modified September 26, 2021: Change podman to using the VM root socket (4b2ff8c79)