Podman

By default, the LocalStack CLI starts the LocalStack runtime inside a Docker container. Docker may not be available on your system, and a popular alternative is Podman which you can use to run LocalStack. Podman support is still experimental, and the following docs give you an overview of the current state.

From the Podman docs:

Options

• localstack is using docker-py which requires a connection to
• LAMBDA_EXECUTOR=docker requires mounting /var/run/docker.sock into the container

Here are several options on running LocalStack using podman:

The package podman-docker emulates the Docker CLI using podman. It creates the following links:

This package is available for some distros:

• https://packages.ubuntu.com/impish/podman-docker

You have to prepare your environment first:

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Podman#Rootless_Podman

If you have problems with subuid and subgid, you could try to use

Last modified January 6, 2022: add documentation updates for ElastiCache, Podman, CloudFormation (#102) (2119b38b)