Hey folks. I am trying to get podman to run in Jupyterhub. As of writing this message, I am getting the following error when executing podman commands in my Jupyter environment: jovyan@2692244743ac:~$ sudo podman run <EXAMPLE_IMAGE> WARN[0000] Failed to add conmon to cgroupfs sandbox cgroup: writ…

Hello @manics Thank you for reaching out. I’m running on Ubuntu 24.04 as my host. I have been using dockerspawner with jupyterhub. I want to use Podman inside the spawned container …. but I don’t want Podman to connect to the system socket (the host’s docker.sock). Furthermore, I have GPUs on my…

I’d start by working out how to run (nested) Podman in your required configuration inside a container without JupyterHub. Once you’ve worked that out we can convert that configuration into the relevant JupyterHub configuration.

Hello again @manics Thanks for the reply. Would you even recommend this approach? I’m digging through documentation and reading other experiences. It seems achievable; I’m not sure if its the best approach though. May I ask your opinion regarding this approach? If I were to summarize it, I want to…

Nested podman inside another container engine should be possible, but the operating system needs some configuration to support rootless podman (e.g. cgroups, user/pid/network namespaces, ideally an overlay filesystem) which all needs to be repeated for the nested podman. These will require extra pri…

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manics August 5, 2025, 2:41pm 2

We’ll need more information to help you. For example, how have your setup your system, how was Podman installed and configured, what are you trying to run?

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