rosenbjerg/wsl2-podman

Script for installing WSL2 + podman and podman-compose (or docker and docker-compose)

For podman on Windows, see the 1st party installation guide here

WSL2 podman/docker install script

Script for installing WSL2 + podman and podman-compose (or docker and docker-compose), and adding Windows "aliases" for convenience

Installation

• Download and extract the .bat and .ps1 files into same folder and run the .bat script (will prompt for admin rights)
• Switch from localhost to ::1 or wsl if you experience problems connecting to a container from some application on the host

Improvements and other suggestions

Please create issues for improvements or suggestions to the script

Known problems

Running the installer

If you experience problems starting the installer using the .bat script, it may be because the .ps1 file is blocked in Windows.

Right-click on the .ps1 file and select Properties. Then in the General tab, you will see the option to unblock it. After unblocking, you should be able to start the install script.

If that doesn't solve it, you may need to move the two files to another directory, possibly due OneDrive synchronization of the current folder. Moving the two files to the root of C:\ should resolve the issue.

Absolute paths

One problem with this docker-desktop alternative is that you cannot use absolute paths for mounting. Instead you will have to either use relative paths or rewrite C:\ to /mnt/c/ and use forward slashes

Connecting to containers using localhost

Some applications automatically resolve localhost to 127.0.0.1 (IPv4) which Windows doesn't forward to WSL2, without checking the Windows hosts file. This means you may experience problems connecting to the containers running in WSL2, if using localhost.

If you do experience this, try changing localhost/127.0.0.1 to ::1 (for TCP connections and [::1] for HTTP) or to wsl

Missing internet connectivity when using Cisco AnyConnect on Windows host

Connecting or disconnecting the AnyConnect client can cause internet connectivity problems in WSL2. Running the following powershell command with elevated rights fixes this:

Get-NetAdapter | Where-Object {$_.InterfaceDescription -Match 'Cisco AnyConnect'} | Set-NetIPInterface -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -InterfaceMetric 6000 | Out-Null

wsl2-podman's Issues

Podman package not found

Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.10.16.3-microsoft-standard-WSL2 x86_64)

Installing podman ..
E: Unable to locate package podman

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Warning when installing podman

I used the script to install podman, I got the error:
/mnt/c/install-wsl2-container-runtime.sh: line 24: $'\r': command not found

I see the power shell replacement:

"@ -replace '"',"`"" -replace "`r",""

Maybe the trailing line in the script interferes with it, or simply dos2unix should be run on it?

Full output was:

Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...
- Installing pip3 ..
- Installing podman-compose through pip3 ..
- Adding aliases for docker and docker-compose in .profile ..
/mnt/c/install-wsl2-container-runtime.sh: line 24: $'\r': command not found

Adding WSL podman wrapper bat files ..
Adding bat file directory to current user's PATH environment variable ..

Adding hosts file entries for convenience ..
Adding '::1 wsl' to hosts file
Adding '::1 docker' to hosts file
Adding '::1 podman' to hosts file

You should now have podman, podman-compose available in your terminal
(the aliases docker and docker-compose were also added)
Please share improvements and suggestions as issues on https://github.com/rosenbjerg/wsl2-podman

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Create a github release

Scripts seem to be excellently prepared. However, to run them, i have to either git clone or download them raw one by one.
I woul better have a zip archive downloadable from the github releases section.

Uninstall script

please provide us with uninstall script as well

Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

This happened during installation

and after that docker ps does not respond

docker ps
Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?