Podman

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/kubic:/libcontainers:/stable/x${NAME}_${VERSION_ID}/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devel:kubic:libcontainers:stable.list"

wget -nv https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:kubic:libcontainers:stable/x${NAME}_${VERSION_ID}/Release.key -O Release.key

sudo apt-key add - < Release.key

sudo apt-get update -qq

sudo apt-get -qq -y install podman

sudo mkdir -p /etc/containers

echo -e "[registries.search]\nregistries = ['docker.io', 'quay.io']" | sudo tee /etc/containers/registries.conf

b)Rootless configuration file changes

sudo nano /usr/share/containers/containers.conf

Change the value of events_logger to:

events_logger = "file"

c1) Emulate Docker CLI using podman

sudo apt install podman-docker

sudo touch /etc/containers/nodocker

c2) (Avoid it, use it only as alternative to the 'podman-docker' package) Symlink docker to podman

(only if podman-docker doesn't work) sudo ln -s /usr/bin/podman /usr/bin/docker

Note: Aliases aren't picked up by shell scripts

Try it out

Execute:

docker run hello-world

Or, if not symlink docker->podman has been created:

podman run hello-world

podman play kube vs Podman Compose vs Docker Compose

Neither 'Podman Compose' nor 'Docker Compose ' is affiliated with Podman (Podman Compose is a community project, not directly maintained by the Podman team).

Note: Docker Compose, as Docker itself, needs a license for commercial use.

Podman is hard at work at work on podman generate kube and podman play kube, which allow Kubernetes YAML to be used directly with Podman.

>"Podman Compose or Docker Compose: Which should you use in Podman?" (June 17, 2022 )

https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-compose-docker-compose

>podman-play-kube ubuntu manpage

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/man1/podman-play-kube.1.html

Troubleshooting

ERRO[0000] error loading cached network config: network "podman" not found in CNI cache

On Windows 11 WSL2 w/ Ubuntu 22.04 using podman 3.4.2

Workaround is to switch back to iptables-legacy:

sudo update-alternatives --set iptables /usr/sbin/iptables-legacy

WARN[0000] "/" is not a shared mount, this could cause issues or missing mounts with rootless containers

Just a warning, ignore it if everything works fine. It might affect mounting filesystems. Warning appeared using Podman 3.4.2. The solution might be (UNTESTED):

sudo mount --make-rshared /