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Using testcontainers-hs with Podman instead of Docker

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, haskell
Domain
testing

Research direction

Start with the linked Podman requirements and compare the referenced testcontainers-go helpers. The issue names no Haskell files or tests; a completed effort would need to establish whether testcontainers-hs supports Podman and define the required handling for the reported permission errors.

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Description

Hey guys,

Just wondering if anyone has had any luck running testcontainers-hs with Podman instead of Docker and if there are any helpers for it? I'm trying to run some tests with Podman but unfortunately I am getting permission errors when calling it from haskell, despite things working when using Golang (testcontainers-go).

The go module for testcontainers also has helpers for specifically targeting (I'm guessing they are setting some things that aren't being set when I run the tests from haskell), and I'm wondering if testcontainers-hs has something similar?

https://golang.testcontainers.org/system_requirements/using_podman/

Dominant language
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