Yak-Shaving netlab Podman Support « ipSpace.net blog

Long, long time ago, in a long-forgotten PR adding support for Cumulus VX Ignite runtime, an off-the-cuff remark was made saying, “and this is how you use netlab with Podman”. That remark was quietly sitting in the documentation for years until someone (A) tried to use Podman and (B) found enough time to report that it doesn’t work with netlab. I don’t know what that tells us: either very few people use Podman, or nobody (apart from a notable exception) cares enough to spend a few minutes telling us stuff doesn’t work1. Anyway, based on Joey Buiteweg’s wonderful research, I was able to put together a working solution pretty quickly, but it did involve a lot of yak shaving (more bovine details).

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