https://github.com/jedahan/podman-desktop

launch and setup vms for podman
https://github.com/jedahan/podman-desktop

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launch and setup vms for podman

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jedahan/podman-desktop
• Owner: jedahan
• Created: 2021-09-03T14:06:10.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-01-11T16:32:23.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-18T21:08:30.066Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: containers, docker, docker-desktop, macos, podman
• Language: Shell
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• Size: 44.9 KB
• Stars: 29
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: readme.md

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# podman-desktop

podman runs on linux, so this script spins up a virtual linux machine, and configures podman to use it as a remote host.



Requires `muiltipass` and `podman`

    brew install multipass podman

Setup a vm for podman. Values shown here are defaults. Mounts are the same as Docker Desktop.

    podman-desktop \

      --name podman \

      --identity ~/.ssh/podman \

      20.04

If you'd like to pass any other params to `multipass launch`, just put them after `--`

    podman-desktop -- --cpus 3  --mem 3G --network 

By default, podman-desktop will mount the same folders as Docker Desktop.

If you'd like to change the default mounts, set the `MOUNTS` variable to an array

If you'd like to mount nothing, (for example, due to sshfs_server cpu usage) set `MOUNTS` to an empty string.

## Image building with buildkit

Podman builds are considerably slower compared to Docker builds. One way to mitigate this is to use [buildkit](https://github.com/moby/buildkit). Multipass instances provisioned with podman-desktop already contain a ready-to-go buildkit daemon. All you need to do is use the buildkit-cli from your host system:

	buildctl \

		--addr=tcp://$(shell multipass info podman --format json | jq -r ".info.podman.ipv4[]"):1234 \

		build \

		--frontend dockerfile.v0 \

		--local context=. \

		--local dockerfile=. \

		--output type=oci,name="thisgetsignored:imagename" \                                                                                               

		| podman load

	

Please note, the resulting image will be `localhost/imagename:latest`, because [Buildkit does not seem write OCI compliant image annotations](https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/12560#issuecomment-990826349-permalink).

# Thank you

Thank you to @heussd for adding buildkit support