How Do I Force Docker Over Podman When Creating A New Container

[neurodiverseEsoteric]

There doesn't seem to be a flag for distrobox-create that lets anyone do this...

[jamescalderon]

I do an inline environment variable, as I have both podman and docker on the same host, here's an example:

DBX_CONTAINER_NAME=docker \
DBX_NON_INTERACTIVE=1 \
DBX_CONTAINER_NAME=test-alpine \
DBX_CONTAINER_IMAGE=alpine distrobox-create

or

DBX_CONTAINER_NAME=podman \
DBX_NON_INTERACTIVE=1 \
DBX_CONTAINER_NAME=test-alpine \
DBX_CONTAINER_IMAGE=alpine distrobox-create

I got those from the notes:

# Expected env variables:
#	HOME
#	USER
# Optional env variables:
#	DBX_CONTAINER_ALWAYS_PULL
#	DBX_CONTAINER_CUSTOM_HOME
#	DBX_CONTAINER_HOME_PREFIX
#	DBX_CONTAINER_IMAGE
#	DBX_CONTAINER_MANAGER
#	DBX_CONTAINER_NAME
#	DBX_CONTAINER_GENERATE_ENTRY
#	DBX_NON_INTERACTIVE
#	DBX_SUDO_PROGRAM

[neurodiverseEsoteric]

Thanks, but just to clarify: only DBX_CONTAINER_NAME is what sets the container manager, right?

[jamescalderon]

Correct

[89luca89]

DBX_CONTAINER_MANAGER env variable
or setting container_manager=<insert-here> in one of the distrobox config file locations, as explained in the readme