Hi Thierry,

Putting the list back in the loop.  I think you accidentally replied to me only.

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 5:17 PM Thierry Parmentelat <thierry.parmentelat@inria.fr> wrote:
Hi Valentin

thanks for your feedback, I’m answering inline

> Podman is not meant to run K8s.  Podman targets single-node machines and focuses on servers and developer machines.  It does not implement Container Runtime Interface (CRI) that K8s uses to communicate with the container runtime.  CRI-O is dedicated to exactly that use-case.

yeah, I got that

so let me rephrase; the fact that I mentioned minikube - that is just a first step for me a beginner here - seems to have been misleading

my ultimate goal is to deploy a k8s cluster on a handful of bare-metal fedora boxes, running podman instead of docker
but I was surprised to see **almost no mention** of podman in the k8s documentation, where docker appears a zillion of times along with, in shorter supply, rkt

As mentioned before, Podman is not meant to be running underneath Kubernetes.  That is CRI-O's job.

Docker and rkt are mentioned for historical reasons.  Both have been used underneath Kubernetes for a longer period of time.  rkt has been discontinued a long time ago and also Docker is not supported underneath Kubernetes anymore.
 
I understand that the podman team is not in charge of that documentation, I’m just saying this suggests podman cannot be used in this way, which I’m pretty certain it is, right ?

Podman cannot be used underneath Kubernetes.
 
> If you see specific bugs, opening an issue upstream would be great.  For questions, the mailing list works well, GitHub issues or the #podman channel on Freenode IRC (and Libera Chat).

thanks for pointing out irc, I’ll try to join you guys there

Great, see you over there :)

Kind regards,
 Valentin