Podman

[eandersons]

How to use Dockman with Podman (rootless) socket? Does Dockman even support Podman?

I tried to set up Dockman with Podman, but Dockman has permission related issues with Podman socket:

dockman-1  | 2026-09-07 09:37:10 INF checking version current=v3.2.0 prev=v3.2.0
dockman-1  | 2026-09-07 09:37:10 ERR Failed to load host error="unable to test docker connection: permission denied while trying to connect to the docker API at unix:///var/run/docker.sock" name=local
dockman-1  | 2026-09-07 09:37:10 INF loaded hosts clients=[]
dockman-1  | 2026-09-07 09:37:10 INF Dockman initialized successfully

From within the Dockman container:

/app # whoami
root
/app # ls -ahl /var/run/docker.sock
srw-------    1 root     root           0 Sep  1 12:02 /var/run/docker.sock
/app # 

As far I have observed, the user root in a rootless Podman container is essentially the same as the user on host, so I cannot wrap my head around as to what could be the issue.

Traefik and Dockpeek, for example, which also are set up with Podman (rootless) socket in the same way as I tried with Dockman, works just fine.

[eandersons]

Okay, got it somewhat working with the help of a socket proxy (with few tweaks).

Nevertheless, I am still interested whether and how the Podman socket can be used directly in a Dockman container as I would prefer this approach.