August 2020 - Podman - Podman List Archives

shouldn't the current directory be the default context for "podman build"?
by Robert P. J. Day 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

"man podman-build" suggests that the context argument is optional: SYNOPSIS podman build [options] [context] podman image build [options] [context] ... If no context directory is specified, then Podman will assume the current working directory as the build context, which should contain the Containerfile. but if i have a directory with nothing but a Containerfile, i get: $ podman build Error: no context directory specified, and no containerfile specified $ OTOH, specifying context of current directory: $ podman build . STEP 1: FROM alpine:latest ... etc etc ... thoughts? rday

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image signing
by Hendrik Haddorp 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

Hi, is OpenPGP the only supported image signing open supported by podman / skopeo or are there other options? Using OpenGPG works quite fine for me so far but in the end we are trying to sign an image using an IBM 4765 crypto card and so far have not figured out how this can play together. thanks, Hendrk

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Getting Docker Discourse running with Podman
by Philip Rhoades 10 Jan '21

10 Jan '21

People, I can run the discourse image with docker, export the container and import it as an image into podman. The script that manages docker discourse containers is: /var/discourse/launcher and is attached. It would be good if it were possible to just replace all the occurrences of "docker" with "podman", fix version numbers etc and be able to use the script - but can any gurus see dockerisms in the script that will cause podman gotchas for this idea? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades PO Box 896 Cowra NSW 2794 Australia E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au

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Current status of podman on macOS Catalina?
by thomas.neal＠hcl.com 08 Sep '20

08 Sep '20

I have installed podman on my macOS Catalina laptop using 'brew cask install podman' and can see that I have v2.0.3 installed. $ podman -v podman version 2.0.3 $ From what I read, the macOS podman is a remote client, but I can't find consistent directions on how to setup/configure the macOS client to reference a remote podman node. I have both RHEL7.7 (podman version 1.6.4) and RHEL8.0 (podman version 1.9.3) VMs where I can ssh as root. Can someone please point me to info about how to setup my macOS podman client to use either of my RHEL podman nodes? Thanks in advance for any help!

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Re: Current status of podman on macOS Catalina?
by Thomas Neal 27 Aug '20

27 Aug '20

Daniel, is there an ETA for when that blog will be live? --tom Thomas Neal Senior Software Developer HCL Software DevOps 919-426-1259 ::DISCLAIMER:: ________________________________ The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. E-mail transmission is not guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or may contain viruses in transmission. The e mail and its contents (with or without referred errors) shall therefore not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of HCL or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of authorized representative of HCL is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any email and/or attachments, please check them for viruses and other defects. ________________________________

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How to containerize a bash script that contains "podman run"?
by Erik Sjölund 18 Aug '20

18 Aug '20

I have a bash script that contains: podman run --rm localhost/img1 prog1 somearg1 podman run --rm localhost/img2 prog2 otherarg1 It works just fine. The command-line tools prog1 and prog2 perform some calculations. Now I would like to containerize the bash script and run everything in a pod. Do you have any tips on how to proceed? One idea I had was to create a new container image based on localhost/img1, but with the addition of a gRPC service or a Varlink service for executing prog1. This service would make use of a Unix domain socket. The same things would be done for localhost/img2. Do you know of any tools that automate the writing of such a service (i.e. a service that wraps a command-line tool)? Socket activation and some exit-on-idle functionality would be cool (but not so important). (Socket activation might not be available in gRPC https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/19133) Thanks, Erik

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Is there any Python module for Podman REST-API ?
by Vivek Satpute 18 Aug '20

18 Aug '20

Hi All, I wish to make use of Podman's REST-APIs in my application. Application will be developed in Python, so is there any Python wrapper interface library available for Podman REST-APIs? I found https://github.com/containers/python-podman module but that uses Podman's Varlink interfaces which I don't want to use as varlink is deprecated. Thanks and Regards, Vivek Satpute

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podman error creating runtime static files
by Seth Kenlon 12 Aug '20

12 Aug '20

On RHEL 8 (CSB), I'm attempting to use podman. I've added myself to /etc/sub{u,g}id, logged out and then back in. I've reinstalled shadow-utils. Everything seems like it ought to work now, but no matter what podman command I run, I seem to hit a runtime error. ``` $ podman --log-level debug image list INFO[0000] running as rootless ERRO[0000] Could not get runtime: error creating runtime static files directory /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/containers/storage/libpod: mkdir /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:: permission denied ``` Running with `sudo` is successful, but I'm trying to avoid a `sudo` dependency if possible. Ultimately, I'd like to pull an image from quay.io via the podman Ansible module, and I assume this error is why my playbook reliably fails at the podman task.

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CI Fails trying to upload artifacts: EOF
by Chris Evich 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

Hey all, Casting a wide-net here because the problem is infrequent :S In the course of hacking on podman or any other containers project, in the next week or so (ending Aug 21st): Please let me know if you notice a CI failure such as: "Failed to upload artifact file /blah/blah/blah: EOF" For example: https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5071485364600832 https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5339766201778176 https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5621241178488832 The (fantastic) support @ Cirrus-CI has some additional logging in place to try and help debug this issue. I need to feed them failure URLs to help speed the search. Thanks in advance! -- Chris Evich, RHCA III Senior Quality Assurance Engineer If it ain't broke, yain't tryin' hard nough.

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Podman API v1.0 Deprecation and Removal Notice
by Tom Sweeney 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

The Podman v1.0 API relied on the varlink library (https://github.com/varlink/libvarlink) to handle the underlying client/server calls from the Podman client to the host where the Podman service was running. About one year ago, the Podman team was notified that the varlink library was being deprecated and there would be no further development and little support for it from the varlink library team. This led the Podman team to investigate the use of other client/server technologies and it was decided to develop a RESTful API for Podman using the native Go libraries. This new Podman v2.0 RESTful API was released along with Podman v2.0 in June of 2020 and replaces the Podman API v1.0. As of that time the Podman v1.0 API for Podman is considered to be deprecated. If there are issues with the Podman v1.0 API in versions of Podman prior to v2.0 and those versions are still under support on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the Podman team will make a best effort to address those issues. However, no new feature requests for the v1.0 API will be considered and any problems found with the v1.0 API in Podman v2.0 will not be addressed. The new Podman v2.0 RESTful API is split into two halves: one providing a Docker-compatible API, and a Libpod API providing support for Podman’s unique features such as pods. The new API works in both a rootful and a rootless environment. It is a much more flexible solution and Podman will not have a dependency on another project in order to supply an API. For more information on the Podman v2.0 RESTful API please see articles on the podman.io site (https://podman.io/) and also the documentation for the Podman v2.0 RESTful API (http://docs.podman.io/en/latest/Reference.html) Distributions have to support services for the length of their support agreements. The Podman development team wants to be free to update the version of Podman during this support cycle. Therefore, we are planning to drop support for Podman API v1.0 from distributions Red Hats is the packagers for. The version of Podman, 2.*, which is contained in Fedora 33, scheduled to be released around Oct 31, 2020, will ship with no varlink support. We also plan to drop support from the RHEL8.4 release, spring 2021. Other distributions like OpenSUSE have already disabled varlink support and we have heard that other distributions will follow suit. This also serves as a notification that the Podman v1.0 (varlink) API will be removed from the main GitHub branch of Podman in the near future. With the release of Podman v2.0 the Podman developers deprecated the Podman v1.0 API in favor of the new Podman v2.0 RESTful API. The plan is to remove varlink completely from the Podman v3.0 development branch which will be created some time after September 2020. A 30 day notification of the final removal date will be posted on the https://podman.iosite and also on the Podman mailing list, along with social media once it is definitively determined. If you have any questions or concerns about this notification, please send a note to the Podman mailing list or create an issue on Podman’s GitHub (https://github.com/containers/podman/issues) repository. Note: This notice will be posted to the podman.io site early next week.

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