Package request: podman

[Fogapod]

Package description
Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers. It also supports docker containers and has some security improvements.

Link to home page and sources

1. Home page: https://podman.io
2. Source code: https://github.com/containers/libpod

Additional information
A lot of dependencies for compiling seem to be missing from termux.

[ghost]

Note that running any kind of container (even the simplest runc-based) require custom kernel with additional features (e.g. cgroups: blkio, freezer, devices, memory, cpuset, cpu, cpuacct). Docker require much more things (e.g. kernel support for overlayfs, veth, bridges, etc...).

[mikaello]

Podman also (ref #10200) runs with user namespace feature is seems:

When run without root, Podman containers use user namespaces to set root in the container to the user running Podman
Source: https://github.com/containers/podman#rootless

But I have not tested building it myself, build instructions here: https://podman.io/getting-started/installation#building-from-scratch

Otherwise Podman seems a good alternative to docker, ref termux/termux-root-packages#60

[Nitrousoxide]

Docker (and Podman by extension) can probably be setup through a QEMU vm. This page describes the general process for Docker, though Podman should be similar.
https://gist.github.com/oofnikj/e79aef095cd08756f7f26ed244355d62

I don't know if a script to automate this process is outside the scope of Termux's package repo though.

[lateautumn233]

There are static binaries here
https://github.com/mgoltzsche/podman-static

[xlbljz]

Note that running any kind of container (even the simplest runc-based) require custom kernel with additional features (e.g. cgroups: blkio, freezer, devices, memory, cpuset, cpu, cpuacct). Docker require much more things (e.g. kernel support for overlayfs, veth, bridges, etc...).

It seems that this is not a problem that can be solved by software packages alone.

[shawn111]

Although termux without root permission missing kinds of kernel features,
podman-remote mode still quite useful.
Or even use podman-machine to launch container via vm.

[lucasew]

There are static binaries here https://github.com/mgoltzsche/podman-static

[aikooo7]

Any updates?

[TomJo2000]

Any updates?

Seeing as there is no podman package for Termux as of right now, no.

[aikooo7]

Any updates?

Seeing as there is no podman package for Termux as of right now, no.

Sad that docker is possible but podman currently not

[aikooo7]

For what is worth it: #11489 (comment)

[rrmistry]

For what is worth it: #11489 (comment)

Agree with that comment.

I eventually got docker to run with Qemu virtualization on Aarch64 architecture with this script. But I'm not good enough at alpine Linux to automate the script entirely such that I can create an alias in the parent Termux environment to run docker / podman in qemu as if it is local

[aikooo7]

For what is worth it: #11489 (comment)

Agree with that comment.

I eventually got docker to run with Qemu virtualization on Aarch64 architecture with this script. But I'm not good enough at alpine Linux to automate the script entirely such that I can create an alias in the parent Termux environment to run docker / podman in qemu as if it is local

You can run "anything" in qemu, so podman and docker work there "fine". Not so fine in the performance, battery and heat, I mean it sucks at it at an unusable level so I switched to native docker using termux which is hell fast. So it will never be "as local" in terms of performance, heat and battery but you can make a script to make it easier.