Merge pull request #170650 from adisbladis/oci-containers-default-backend

nixos/virtualisation.oci-containers: Use podman as the default backend
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Florian Klink 2022-05-03 10:09:22 +02:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -509,6 +509,19 @@
<literal>/etc/containers</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
For new installations
<literal>virtualisation.oci-containers.backend</literal> is
now set to <literal>podman</literal> by default. If you still
want to use Docker on systems where
<literal>system.stateVersion</literal> is set to to
<literal>&quot;22.05&quot;</literal> set
<literal>virtualisation.oci-containers.backend = &quot;docker&quot;;</literal>.Old
systems with older <literal>stateVersion</literal>s stay with
<quote>docker</quote>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>security.klogd</literal> was removed. Logging of

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@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the followin
This is to improve compatibility with `libcontainer` based software such as Podman and Skopeo
which assumes they have ownership over `/etc/containers`.
- For new installations `virtualisation.oci-containers.backend` is now set to `podman` by default.
If you still want to use Docker on systems where `system.stateVersion` is set to to `"22.05"` set `virtualisation.oci-containers.backend = "docker";`.Old systems with older `stateVersion`s stay with "docker".
- `security.klogd` was removed. Logging of kernel messages is handled
by systemd since Linux 3.5.

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@ -338,11 +338,7 @@ in {
backend = mkOption {
type = types.enum [ "podman" "docker" ];
default =
# TODO: Once https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/77925 is resolved default to podman
# if versionAtLeast config.system.stateVersion "20.09" then "podman"
# else "docker";
"docker";
default = if versionAtLeast config.system.stateVersion "22.05" then "podman" else "docker";
description = "The underlying Docker implementation to use.";
};