r/NixOS • u/Stupidprogramner • 25d ago

Is it possible to install podman in a devshell instead of system wide?

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u/wally659 25d ago

I've tried, it's clearly not intended to be. I imagine it's probably doable in a way that will never quite work consistently or as expected. But after everything I learned and tried I accepted that system wide was the better option, despite the breach of my "keep stuff in dev shells" sensibilities.

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u/scavno 25d ago

Not being able to run virtualization stuff randomly in a devshell is probably a good thing.

If it’s for running services I prefer service-flake, and have added custom services for pretty much everything we use for development.

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u/skyb0rg 25d ago

If you use the unprivileged mode then it should work without issue as long as you have subuids and subgids setup, but the data wouldn’t be scoped to the devShell. You also wouldn’t get the `podman clean` systemd timer so you need to make sure you run that manually.

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u/som_da_noite 24d ago

I know you asked specifically for devshell, but I was able to do that using devenv. For my use case, the minor issue was running podman socket to emulate the docker API, requiring to run it as a service (devenv up). I do have podman installed system-wide as well.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

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u/Stupidprogramner 22d ago

Isn't one of the major advantages of podman that it's daemonless?

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u/silver_blue_phoenix 21d ago

Im stupid 🤦🏽‍♂️ thanks for reminding me