EN Providers Podman

Podman provider

Podman is a first-class compute provider. whaleshell discovers a Podman API socket and reuses the Docker Engine client path (driver.OpenEngine("podman")). Sandbox labels, networks, proxy sidecar, and exec flows match Docker.

Pages

Page	Topic
Prerequisites	Socket, machine, rootless
Create a sandbox	Switch driver and run create
Limitations	Rootless networking, MVP gaps
Troubleshooting	Socket and netavark issues

Activate

export WHALESHELL_DRIVER=podman
# optional:
# export WHALESHELL_PODMAN_SOCKET=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/podman/podman.sock

whaleshell status    # driver: podman

Resource flags, log rotation, slim proxy image, and soft defaults behave the same as on Docker — see Docker resources and Docker logging.