How to develop penpot with podman (penpotman)

Troubleshooting
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Hi, I want to develop some penpod feature locally and ideally (on success) create a PR later on. My plan was to use podman instead of docker.

Following this instructions worked more or less flawlessly. I got the webinterface running locally, and i was able to login with the user I created via the script.

Being optimistic I’m am able to start developing I followed this guide.
I copied the manage.sh to my own manage-podman.sh swapped all

  • docker with podman
  • docker compose with podman-compose
  • removed all :z because Mac has an issue with SELinux
  • set higher ulimits

But run now in an issue during spinning up of the front-end

[1/4] Resolving packages...
[2/4] Fetching packages...
[3/4] Linking dependencies
warning " > react-virtualized@9.22.3" has incorrect peer dependency "react@^15.3.0 || ^16.0.0-alpha".
warning " > react-virtualized@9.22.3" has incorrect peer dependency "react-dom@^15.3.0 || ^16.0.0-alpha".
error An unexpected error occurred: "EMFILE: too many open files, copyfile '/home/penpot/.cache/yarn/v6/npm-color-convert-2.0.1-72d3a68d598c9bdb3af2ad1e84f21d896abd4de3-integrity/node_modules/color-convert/conversions.js' -> '/home/penpot/penpot/frontend/node_modules/ansi-styles/node_modules/color-convert/conversions.js'".
info If you think this is a bug, please open a bug report with the information provided in "/home/penpot/penpot/frontend/yarn-error.log".

Anyone having experience with setting up penpot with podman (or how i call it: penpotman) for development? It feels like 95% done, but missing one or two magic adjustments.

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Prefect timing! I was - and still am - also planning to deploy penpot with podman with an eye towards minor dev work. Very eager to hear from the devs on this.

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Deploying penpot on podman and running penpot devenv in podman is not the same thing. Development environment requires more tricky hacks and workarounds. The regular deploy should work without problems I guess but I’m not personally using podman.

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So is seems this is only a Mac/Potman issue. I installed podman and podman-compose on a Ubuntu 20.04 machine and the only thing I did was to copy the manage.sh to my own manage-podman.sh swapped all

  • docker compose with podman-compose
  • docker␣ with podman␣

So really cool to see this working, but it would be even nicer to get it to work on my Mac x86 machine.
Probably this is more a Podman issue than Penpot, but maybe someone here has an idea or got it working

Current status
:white_check_mark: Penpotman (Ubuntu 20.04)
:x: Penpotman (Mac 12.6, x86)

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What a random encounter!
:wave:

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(Also related to the topic: As far as I know, there can’t be a native podman implementation for OSX, since you’d always need a Linux kernel running in the background. Since I don’t have a Mac myself to try, I can’t give you any more advice right now. But I guess you fixed it at some point in the past 3 months already :slight_smile: )

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Nice to meet you here @elektrowolle.

Unfortunately I didn’t have time to investigate further with Mac development via podman. Also because I guess setting up a linux machine in my network is ok for that kind of development.