I run Drone CI for a longer period now with Docker. Because I decided to switch for multiple reasons from Docker to Podman, this setup had to be changed a bit.

In this blog post, I want to cover how to install Podman and how to set up Drone so that it works with Podman.

Installing Podman

Install the podman and podman-docker packages. E.g. on a Debian based System:

apt install podman podman-docker

If you currently use docker-compose, then you should also install podman-compose: