Reading container IP addresses

[glenn-auld]

The "Running your microservices in containers" section of the tutorial includes the following step to get the IP address of the system container:

podman inspect -f "{{.NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}" system

When I ran this (Windows, WSL2), the response was blank.

I eventually discovered that this appears to be due the difference between running podman containers in rootfull vs rootless modes.
See https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/container-ip-address-podman

i.e. the above "inspect" command only works for rootfull podman containers.

Maybe I've made a mistake in my setup, but I would suggest an update to the tutorial to make it clear on this point.

[shin19991207]

Hi @glenn-auld

Thank you for your feedback. We have updated the Additional prerequisites section in the guide to clarify the need to initialize Podman in rootful mode to enable proper networking on Windows systems.

We will now close this issue. If you encounter any other issues, please feel free to open a new one.

Thanks again!