YOU’LL NEED THIS
PODMAN
You can install this natively in Linux or through WSL in Windows. For a beginner’s guide to Podman, see the February 2024 issue.
A COUPLE OF ISSUES AGO, we introduced you to a new, more secure way of running containerized apps on your PC: Podman. However, while Podman is designed to work with Docker containers, the way it functions means they’re not 100 percent compatible—at least in their native form. That’s down to two primary reasons: the first is that Podman runs under your own user account to provide containers with ‘rootless’ access to your system, and the second is that containers are set up to run independently instead of through an additional Docker daemon process.
Rootless access prevents containers from being given the keys to your system, but can cause problems for those that need elevated access in certain areas. The lack of a parent daemon also requires a different approach to configuring containers to auto-start with your system. In this tutorial, we’ll examine these key differences and explain ways in which you can circumvent them to get a selection of popular containers. You’ll also equip yourself with the know-how to get other containers working. We’ve focused
