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 (except when using Rootless Podman):

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

Rootless Podman

By default, minikube executes Podman with sudo. To use Podman without sudo (i.e., Rootless Podman), set the rootless property to true:

minikube config set rootless true

For Rootless Podman, it is recommended to set --container-runtime to containerd:

minikube start --driver=podman --container-runtime=containerd

See the Rootless Docker section for the requirements and the restrictions.

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

Also see co/podman-driver open issues.