Podman Container Plugin & Checks

100 votes

Redhat is trying had to establish Podman as a replacement for Docker, by pushing it as default container engine for Redhat Enterprise products (RHEL, Openshift…).
Sadly, as of today, there is no support for Podman Checks in CMK.

Although there is some compatibility to Docker (docker commands can be aliased to podman), the Docker python module, which agent plugin uses, does not work with Podman.
So a new agent plugin would be needed for Podman support.

Planned Checks&Agents Suggested by: Mario Sommer (02 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: yesterday • Comments: 3

Comments: 3

28 Feb, '23
Thomas Lippert Admin
Under discussion for Checkmk 2.3
09 May, '23
Thomas Lippert Admin
Checkmk Werk 15584: mk_docker: Added podman support
19 Jan
Niklas Pulina Admin
Hello,

Thank you for contributing this idea. We understand the problem it solves and its significance to your business as demonstrated by the number of upvotes.

After a thorough review, we came to the conclusion that the implementation announced in the comment above does not fulfill the requirements to be published with Checkmk 2.3 as it reports incomplete (Piggyback) data and doesn't offer a clear distinction from Docker.

We therefore have to postpone Podman support until a future major release of Checkmk.
Thank you for your understanding.

Warm regards,
Your Checkmk team