Getting Dockhand working with Podman and non-root containers

[IanMajor12]

We use podman at work, so to get that working I only changed the volume to be
/run/podman/podman.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:Z in both the dockhand and hawser service.

In addition, to show non-root containers that are run by a specific user, I spun up another local Hawser agent that was mapped to the users podman.sock like this:
- /run/user/{userid}/podman/podman.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:Z as well as change the new Hawser port to non-standard.

This can be repeated for each user.

We now have environments for all the containers (dockers/podman) running.

Of course, I could have setup a separate Dockhand instance (running on different ports for Dockhand) and only allowed that user to see it.

[jotka]

hi @IanMajor12 thanks! I will put in the manual!

[IanMajor12]

Awesome, note that it's /run/user/userid/podman/podman.sock for the non-root - it was hidden in the formatting.

[leggewie]

I ran into this situation which I assume will be very common. $UID is not exported properly automatically but $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is. Here is my volume defintion that allows me to reuse the same podman-compose file across different users without any required additional fiddling: "- ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/podman/podman.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:Z". This will just work.