Can podman be used with terraform and docker plugin?

[2fxprogeeme]

I use rootless podman 4.6.2 on Linux Mint and want to execute some tutorials with terraform. My idea is to enable podman socket and set the "host" variable in the terraform configuration of the docker plugin to point to the podman socket.

The terraform file is very simple.

terraform {
required_providers {
docker = {
source = "kreuzwerker/docker"
version = "3.0.2"
}
}
}

provider "docker" {
host = "unix:///run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock"
}

resource "docker_image" "nginx" {
name = "nginx:latest"
keep_locally = false
}

resource "docker_container" "nginx" {
image = docker_image.nginx.image_id
name = "tutorial"
ports {
internal = 80
external = 8080
}
}

When executing "terraform apply" the NGINX image ist downloaded an the container is started. So far, so good.
When executing "terraform destroy" I get the following error message:

Error: Error waiting for container removal 'ca008b9680b276a65d685a6b10218073e2614efab632ffea9711c49d78be6f40': Error response from daemon: no such container

But when executing "podman ps -a" after the error message the container exists no longer. So the container was stopped and destroyed.

So my question: Is my idea to substitute docker by podman using podman.socket the correct was for this?

Thanks in advance for any comment.

Best regards
Ulrich

[rhatdan]

Yes although I have no idea why the container is being removed.