How to Configure Podman in Rootless Mode?

Question

How to configure Podman in rootless mode?

Container platform: Podman

For better security, we recommend that you always run Podman in rootless mode. By default, Podman runs in rootless mode on most systems.

To configure Podman in rootless mode, do the following:

Ensure that the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR environment variable is set.
```
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u)
```
To persist this, you can add it to the .bashrc file associated with the user.

Run the following commands to start the Podman socket in rootless mode:

systemctl --user enable --now podman.socket
systemctl --user start --now podman.socket

Switch to a root user and run the following command to allow services to run even after the user logs out:
```
sudo loginctl enable-linger <username>
```