Podman

Dagger can be used with any OCI-compatible container runtime, including Podman.

Prerequisites

Ensure that podman is installed and running on your system:

$ podman info
host:
  arch: amd64
  buildahVersion: 1.41.4
  ...

warning

Podman must be configured for rootful container execution.

You can install podman using the official instructions.

note

Podman Desktop on Mac and RHEL 8.x users may need to additionally execute modprobe iptable_nat.

To access the virtual machine used by Podman Desktop on Mac, use the commands below:

# list podman machines
podman machine list

# log in to machine
podman machine ssh podman-machine-default

# execute command
sudo modprobe iptable_nat

Example

$ podman ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                COMMAND                  CREATED       STATUS       PORTS                                         NAMES
$ dagger core version
v0.18.19
$ podman ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                COMMAND                  CREATED       STATUS       PORTS                                         NAMES
27d47c3d5a10   registry.dagger.io/engine:v0.18.19   "dagger-entrypoint.s…"   6 days ago    Up 4 hours                                                 dagger-engine-v0.18.19

Resources

If you have any questions about additional ways to use Podman with Dagger, join our Discord and ask your questions in our help channel.

About Podman

Podman is a Docker-compatible tool to manage and run OCI containers.