podman with terraform

Using podman instead of regular docker with terraform.

My challenge here is not just using podman instead of docker under terraform but also the following:

debian 13 wsl
upgrading wsl1 vs wsl2 image
windows client is a VM under hyper-v

I needed this because my Windows instance is a VM under Hyper-V

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Set-VMProcessor -VMName "VMName" -ExposeVirtualizationExtensions $true

conversion to wsl2 runs a while

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PS C:\Users\rrosso> wsl --set-version Debian 2
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...

check this is true

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❯ cat /etc/wsl.conf
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[boot]
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systemd=true

check my wsl container is now v2

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PS C:\Users\rrosso> wsl -l -v
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  NAME      STATE           VERSION
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* Debian    Stopped         2

install podman if not done already

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sudo apt update
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sudo apt install -y podman
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systemctl --user enable --now podman.socket
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systemctl --user enable --now podman.socket
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❯ systemctl status podman.socket
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○ podman.socket - Podman API Socket
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     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/podman.socket; disabled; preset: enabled)
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     Active: inactive (dead)
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   Triggers: ● podman.service
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       Docs: man:podman-system-service(1)
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     Listen: /run/podman/podman.sock (Stream)

test

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❯ curl --unix-socket "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/podman/podman.sock" http://d/_ping
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OK

set this before your terraform commands

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❯ export DOCKER_HOST="unix://$HOME/podman.sock"