What is the path to the podman socket in the host

[iongion]

I am trying to communicate with the podman api from a client running in the host.

On podman running in native linux I start the api using

podman system service --time=0 unix:///tmp/podman.sock --log-level=debug

Then http clients over unix socket can access the api.

[afbjorklund]

When starting "podman.yaml", it will print out the podman.sock location.

To run `podman` on the host (assumes podman-remote is installed):
$ export CONTAINER_HOST=unix:///home/anders/.lima/podman/sock/podman.sock
$ podman --remote ...

Normally it is under "sock/podman.sock", in the lima instance directory.

portForwards:
- guestSocket: "/run/user/{{.UID}}/podman/podman.sock"
  hostSocket: "{{.Dir}}/sock/podman.sock"

It is started with systemctl --user enable --now podman.socket in the VM.

https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorials/remote_client.md

[afbjorklund]

Currently there is no "podman system connection" added for podman, even if there is a "docker context" added for docker.

  docker context create lima --docker "host=unix://{{.Dir}}/sock/docker.sock"
  docker context use lima

  podman system connection add lima --identity {{.IdentityFile}} "unix://{{.Dir}}/sock/podman.sock"
  podman system connection default lima

Previously it was just using the DOCKER_HOST and CONTAINER_HOST environment variables instead, with export.