Fly Podman Daemon

This is a Podman daemon that runs on Fly and can be used to build OCI images using podman. Podman runs as an unprivileged user inside the container. See podman rootless for a list of caveats and gotchas. The majority of image builds will work fine in rootless podman.

Source Hut Mirror - git.sr.ht/~ananth/fly-podman-daemon

Installation

1. Clone this repository.
2. fly launch & follow the prompts.
3. Select n when it asks if you want to deploy.
4. Create a volume in a region of your choice: fly volumes create containers --size 50 --region sin
5. Deploy

Connect to podman remote

1. Create a WireGuard peer with fly wireguard create
2. Setup WireGuard with generated config.
3. Set the CONTAINER_HOST env variable using the fly.io private network hostname on TCP port 8080: export CONTAINER_HOST=tcp://appname.internal:8080
4. On Linux, use podman --remote with the env var set to use the remove daemon. On MacOS, brew install podman-remote. Windows users can use podman-remote or install podman in WSL.

Next Steps

1. Delete Docker Engine!
2. You almost definitely want to scale your remote daemon: fly scale vm dedicated-cpu-2x.

LICENSE

podman-daemon is available under the MIT License and is copyright (c) 2021-22 Ananth Bhaskararaman.