Podman support

CodeReady Containers 1.26.0 brings Podman 2.2.1 to your machine. It works on Linux, macOS and Windows.

You can build, run and share containers now.

Usage

• crc setup
• crc start
• eval $(crc podman-env)
• podman version (macOS/Windows) or podman-remote version (Linux)

Limitations

• It exposes the rootless podman socket of the virtual machine

• It still require to have the full OpenShift cluster running

• Bind mounts don't work.

• Ports are not automatically exposed on the host.

  • Workaround when using vsock network mode:
    • Expose a port: curl --unix-socket ~/.crc/crc-http.sock http:/unix/network/services/forwarder/expose -X POST -d '{"local":":8080","remote":"192.168.127.3:8080"}'
    • Unexpose a port: curl --unix-socket ~/.crc/crc-http.sock http:/unix/network/services/forwarder/unexpose -X POST -d '{"local":":8080"}'

Known bugs

• Very often, the first run of podman fails. It will be fixed with Podman 3.0.