This is a short note that serves as a self-reminder on how podman can automatically change the ownership of a source volume to match the default UID and GID within the container. TL;DR: Use the :U suffix on the volume definition. The following is an example of the issue I had and how to apply the fix. First, let’s list the current ownership of the directory to be used as the source volume for the container....
Up until recently, my preferred method of creating Podman containers is to use Ansible, and that has been working fine for me. However, I just stumble the new-to-me method called “quadlet”. So far, I really like it, and already started moving some containers to quadlet. To learn more about Quadlet, check out [1]. But, today I’m going to share an example of creating a simple container with Quadlet. In this example, the container whoami is run in rootless mode, under a non-privileged user....