How to Install Podman on Windows 10

 

WSL Installation

You can now install everything you need to run Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) by entering this command in an administrator PowerShell or Windows Command Prompt and then restarting your machine.

Pre Req: You need to have at least Windows 10 build 18917.

How to Check?

Check that in My computer -> Properties

Windows_10_build

Set the default version to 2:

To set the default version to WSL 1 or WSL 2 when a new Linux distribution is installed, use the command: wsl --set-default-version <Version#>, replacing <Version#> with either 1 or 2.

set_default_wsl2_version

 

Then run this command.

wsl --install -d Ubuntu

Install_ubuntu_wsl

This command will enable the required optional components, download the latest Linux kernel, set WSL 2 as your default, and install a Linux distribution for you. By default, the installed Linux distribution will be Ubuntu. This can be changed using the -d flag.

·       To see a list of available Linux distributions available for download through the online store, enter: wsl --list --online or wsl -l -o.

Install_ubuntu_wsl1

How to Upgrade version from WSL 1 to WSL 2 on a previously installed Linux distributions: https://www.devopszones.com/2022/02/how-to-upgrade-version-from-wsl-1-to.html

Set up your Linux user info

Once you have installed WSL, you will need to create a user account and password for your newly installed Linux distribution. 

create user

Add the Podman PPA and install Podman

 

The easiest way to begin the installation of Podman on Ubuntu is to use the Kubic project.

$ sudo su -

#. /etc/os-release

# sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/kubic:/libcontainers:/stable/x${NAME}_${VERSION_ID}/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devel:kubic:libcontainers:stable.list"

# wget -nv https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:kubic:libcontainers:stable/x${NAME}_${VERSION_ID}/Release.key -O Release.key

# apt-key add - < Release.key

# apt-get update -qq

# apt-get -qq -y install podman

# mkdir -p /etc/containers

# echo -e "[registries.search]\nregistries = ['docker.io', 'quay.io']" | tee /etc/containers/registries.conf

Install_podman_repo

Install podman

Run the container to make sure podman works fine.

podman run hello-world

hello-world container

Run podman info

Podman Info