Microshift with podman machine

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5 minutes to OpenShift on a Mac with podman machine and microshift.

Steps:

1. brew install podman
2. podman machine init
3. podman machine start
4. podman machine ssh

(in the ssh session)

5. sudo setsebool -P container_manage_cgroup true
6. sudo podman volume create ushift-vol
7. sudo podman run -d --rm --name ushift --privileged -v /lib/modules:/lib/modules -v ushift-vol:/var/lib --hostname ushift -p 6443:6443 quay.io/microshift/microshift:4.7.0-0.microshift-2021-08-31-224727-aio-linux-amd64

(wait ~3-4min, then exit the ssh session and return to the host)

8. podman machine ssh sudo podman exec ushift cat /var/lib/microshift/resources/kubeadmin/kubeconfig > kubeconfig
9. kubectl get pods -A --kubeconfig ./kubeconfig

NAMESPACE                       NAME                                  READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
kube-system                     kube-flannel-ds-pzjw4                 1/1     Running   0          5m40s
kubevirt-hostpath-provisioner   kubevirt-hostpath-provisioner-hs6sp   1/1     Running   0          5m41s
openshift-dns                   dns-default-pvt6d                     3/3     Running   0          5m40s
openshift-ingress               router-default-6d8c9d8f57-75nnx       1/1     Running   0          5m40s
openshift-service-ca            service-ca-64547678c6-2bv65           1/1     Running   0          5m43s

Links

https://github.com/redhat-et/microshift/tree/main/hack/all-in-one