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How to do rootless Podman on Alpine Linux

Using recent podman (3.x) on 5.10.x Alpine Linux Kernels

apk add podman util-linux

enable and start the cgroups and podman services

rc-update add cgroups
rc-update add podman
rc-service cgroups start
rc-service podman start

edit /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid, add mappings starting at 200000 or greater

load needed kernel modules

modprobe tun
modprobe fuse

test it out

podman unshare cat /proc/self/uid_map
       0       1024          1
       1     200000      65536
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rc-server -> rc-service

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danmack commented Dec 12, 2022

Thank you, fixed.

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