Hi, I’m trying to deploy Jupyterhub with Podman instead of Docker (because I’m on RHEL). I tried clean install of Podman 4.4.1 with Jupyterhub 4.0.2 and Dockerspawner 13.0.0 but I’m getting strange error. [E 2024-02-13 15:43:13.897 JupyterHub user:894] Failed to cleanup <username>'s server that f…

[image] jiri.t: docker.errors.DockerException: Error while fetching server API version: ('Connection aborted.', FileNotFoundError(2, 'No such file or directory')) This sounds like your podman socket is either missing, in a different location, or there’s some other configuraiton issue. Hav…

thank you for your insight. It seems export DOCKER_HOST=unix:///run/podman/podman.sock fixed the problem with connecting to podman api. Nevertheless I’m still getting some strange errors. Does this mean, my image is bad and I should download a new one ? I’ve pick just basic all-spark-notebook f…

Does the minimal example in [image] JupyterHub with Podman and DockerSpawner: Immediate 'JupyterLab Server Unavailable' Error on Login, Resolved by Refresh JupyterHub This minimal config is working for me: # jupyterhub_config_podman.py c.JupyterHub.spawner_class = "docke…

Thank you very much. This minimal config is able to spawn containers ! Your insight really helped me !

JupyterHub + Podman compatibility

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