podman
Overview
This driver is experimental and in active development. Help wanted!
The podman driver is an alternative container runtime to the Docker driver.
Requirements
- Linux or macOS operating systems on amd64 architecture
- 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
- Podman driver is not supported on non-amd64 architectures such as arm yet. For non-amd64 archs please use other drivers
- Podman v2 driver is not supported yet.
- Podman requirements 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
Troubleshooting
- Run
minikube start --alsologtostderr -v=7
to debug errors and crashes
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