💭 How to pull from images from docker.io with podman
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!https://gist.github.com/isomorphisms/3114ab86960656a729a6b4653001aae2

Date: July 28, 2023

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On void linux.

Under `/etc/containers/` there is a file called `registries.conf`. It is complemented by `man 5 containers-registries.conf`.

Change (for me lines 11-12) which say

[registries.search]
registries = []

to

[registries.search]
registries = ['docker.io']

(drawn from https://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2018/05/podman-tls/)

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Without the above you won't be able to use basic `podman` functions. You might get errors like:

- `Error: unable to pull fedora:28: image name provided is a short name and no search registries are defined in the registries config file.`
- `Error: unable to pull stripe/stripe-cli: image name provided is a short name and no search registries are defined in the registries config file.`

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Various documentation (redhat blog entries, `man podman` pages) say that dockerhub is a default, but without this step it's clearly not.

Good luck. Feel free to use the comment box below if you have a github account.

By default podman will not pull images from docker.io and will need setup. This guide worked for me.

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