how are you trying to run podman?

If you just want a similar setup as with docker I’ll recommend this:

https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorials/rootless_tutorial.md

Lingering (running services without login / after logout)

https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/12001

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/462845/how-to-apply-lingering-immedeately#462867

sudo loginctl enable-linger <user>

https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/vendor/github.com/containers/storage/storage.conf

Check out the storage.conf to use the fuse-overlay driver.

I like podman-compose and i have a start up script that restarts all my containers at reboot, as my user.

Also use the full link to your images, like docker.io/image oder where ever you get your images from.

have fun :)

I use glance.

Yes all users that have containers running, that should keep running need lingering.

The Services do not restart themself. I have cronjob that executes podman start --all at reboot for my “podman user”.

I’m running podman and podman-compose with no problem. And I’m happy. At first I was confused by the uid and gid mapping the containers have, but you’ll get used to it.

This are some notes I took, please don’t take all of it for the right choice.

Podman-Stuff

https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorials/rootless_tutorial.md

storage.conf

To use the fuse-overlay driver, the storage must be configured:

.config/containers/storage.conf

[storage]
  driver = "overlay"
  runroot = "/run/user/1000"
  graphroot = "/home/<user>/.local/share/containers/storage"
  [storage.options]
    mount_program = "/usr/bin/fuse-overlayfs"

Lingering (running services without login / after logout)

https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/12001

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/462845/how-to-apply-lingering-immedeately#462867

sudo loginctl enable-linger <user>