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Podman can run rootless containers and be a drop-in replacement for Docker.

Setup

To enable Podman support, add following lines to your system configuration

# Enable common container config files in /etc/containers
virtualisation.containers.enable = true;
virtualisation = {
  podman = {
    enable = true;
    # Create a `docker` alias for podman, to use it as a drop-in replacement
    dockerCompat = true;
    # Required for containers under podman-compose to be able to talk to each other.
    defaultNetwork.settings.dns_enabled = true;
  };
};

users.users.myuser = {
  isNormalUser = true;
  extraGroups = [ "podman" ];
};

Replace myuser with your current user. A reboot or re-login might be required for the permissions to take effect after applying changes.

Tips and tricks

podman-compose

podman-compose is a drop-in replacement for docker-compose

Using podman with ZFS

Rootless can't use ZFS directly but the overlay needs POSIX ACL enabled for the underlying ZFS filesystem, ie., acltype=posixacl

Best to mount a dataset under /var/lib/containers/storage with property acltype=posixacl.

Use Podman within nix-shell

https://gist.github.com/adisbladis/187204cb772800489ee3dac4acdd9947

Note that rootless podman requires newuidmap (from shadow). If you're not on NixOS, this cannot be supplied by the Nix package 'shadow' since setuid/setgid programs are not currently supported by Nix.

Run Podman containers as systemd services

{
  virtualisation.oci-containers.backend = "podman";
  virtualisation.oci-containers.containers = {
    container-name = {
      image = "container-image";
      autoStart = true;
      ports = [ "127.0.0.1:1234:1234" ];
    };
  };
}

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-Podman can run rootless containers and be a drop-in replacement for Docker.
+Podman can run rootless containers and be a drop-in replacement for [[Docker]].
-== Install and configure podman with NixOS service configuration ==
+== Setup ==
+To enable Podman support, add following lines to your system configuration<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
-<syntaxHighlight lang="nix">
+# Enable common container config files in /etc/containers
-{ pkgs, ... }:
+virtualisation.containers.enable = true;
-{
+virtualisation = {
-   virtualisation = {
+   podman = {
-     podman = {
+     enable = true;
-      enable = true;
+    # Create a `docker` alias for podman, to use it as a drop-in replacement
+    dockerCompat = true;
+    # Required for containers under podman-compose to be able to talk to each other.
+    defaultNetwork.settings.dns_enabled = true;
+  };
+};
-      # Create a `docker` alias for podman, to use it as a drop-in replacement
+users.users.myuser = {
-      dockerCompat = true;
+  isNormalUser = true;
+  extraGroups = [ "podman" ];
+};
+</syntaxhighlight>Replace <code>myuser</code> with your current user. A reboot or re-login might be required for the permissions to take effect after applying changes.
-      # Required for containers under podman-compose to be able to talk to each other.
+== Tips and tricks ==
-      defaultNetwork.dnsname.enable = true;
-    };
-  };
-}
-</syntaxHighlight>
 === podman-compose ===
@@ Line 25: / Line 28: @@
 === Using podman with ZFS ===
-For root using ZFS, podman needs access to the ZFS tools.
+Rootless can't use [[ZFS]] directly but the overlay needs POSIX ACL enabled for the underlying ZFS filesystem, ie., <code>acltype=posixacl</code>
-<syntaxHighlight lang="nix">
-virtualisation.podman.extraPackages = [ pkgs.zfs ];
-</syntaxHighlight>
-Rootless can't use ZFS directly but the overlay needs POSIX ACL enabled for the underlying ZFS filesystem, ie., <code>acltype=posixacl</code>
-== Use Podman within nix-shell ==
+Best to mount a dataset under <code>/var/lib/containers/storage</code> with property <code>acltype=posixacl</code>.
+=== Use Podman within nix-shell ===
 https://gist.github.com/adisbladis/187204cb772800489ee3dac4acdd9947
 Note that rootless podman requires newuidmap (from shadow). If you're not on NixOS, this cannot be supplied by the Nix package 'shadow' since [https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/expressions/derivations.html setuid/setgid programs are not currently supported by Nix].
-== Run Podman containers as systemd services ==
+=== Run Podman containers as systemd services ===
 <syntaxHighlight lang="nix">
 {
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 </syntaxHighlight>
-[[Category: Applications]]
+[[Category:Software]]
+[[Category:Server]]
+[[Category:Container]]