How-To: Run Dapr in self-hosted mode with Podman

This article provides guidance on running Dapr with Podman on a Windows/Linux/macOS machine or VM.

To initialize the Dapr control-plane containers and create a default configuration file, run:

This command launches both the daprd sidecar and your application.

Alternately, if you are running Dapr in a Docker container and your app as a process on the host machine, then you need to configure Podman to use the host network so that Dapr and the app can share a localhost network interface.

Then you can run your app on the host and they should connect over the localhost network interface.

To uninstall Dapr completely, run: