Feature Request : Support for Podman credentials on local machine to access image metadata

[toutshuss]

Devpod Version : 0.5.18
Provider: Kubernetes v0.1.14

Is your feature request related to a problem?
I am using Devpod with Kubernetes provider. The trouble is not necessarily related to the provider.
Some users need to launch a pod based on an image from a private image repository. We manage authentication and some images need credentials to be accessed. DevPod tries to access metadata from the image and uses Docker configuration files to get access to the local credentials. In my case only Podman is installed on the local machine so it cannot access podman credentials.

Which solution do you suggest?
Podman should be taken into account as Docker is. Or simply add an environment variable to override the file path completely.

Which alternative solutions exist?
I managed to make it works by setting environment variables :

• DOCKER_CONFIG : %USERPROFILE%\.config\containers
• REGISTRY_AUTH_FILE : %USERPROFILE%\.config\containers\config.json

I could also have created the symbolic link %USERPROFILE%\.docker\config.json pointing to %USERPROFILE%\.config\containers\auth.json

Additional context

[pascalbreuninger]

Hey @toutshuss, thanks for suggesting this improvement.
The easiest solution here would be to use the GetCredentials implementation of the github.com/containers/image project ,which attempts to unify working with images across podman, docker etc, instead of the docker sdk

[toutshuss]

Thanks for your responsiveness ! That would be great :)