cni

Sometimes you need to connect to the host from a Podman container running on it. How would you do that? In the past I was able to get this working by connecting to the gateway IP of the container. For example, I have a web server running on the host listening on port 8080. ➜ nc -vz localhost 8080 Ncat: Version 7.92 ( https://nmap.org/ncat ) Ncat: Connected to 127.0.0.1:8080. Ncat: 0 bytes sent, 0 bytes received in 0....

I’ve started to running more containers in my homelab with Podman, running inside AlamaLinux. Most of the times, things just worked. However today, I tried to setup similar containers on OpenSUSE Leap 15.16 host, and I came across an issue getting containers to communicate with one another. Well, spoiler alert, I found a solution, hence this blog post. TL;DR - install cni-plugin-dnsname package from cni-plugin-dnsname build service. (No package from the official OpenSUSE repo)....