Is there any way to make

pants

aware of my aliases? E.g. I alias docker to podman, but pants doesn’t pick that up natively

Can you symlink

docker

to

podman

instead of using a shell alias?

That’s what I’ve done as a workaround

pants executes whatever

docker

means.. so I guess if you get the shell env to load a

.profile

or such with your alias in, it could work...? Not sure what you need to provide to make that happen though.

Hmm, need to investigate. So far,

podman

seems to work for my basic workflows (create some pexes and put them into a container to run FastAPI), so that’s awesome.

an alternative to alias (and symlink) is to use a ... man I lost the word.. (like, proxy script that you call

docker

and present it on the PATH to pants), which basically just calls

exec podman "$@"

Yeah, I know what you’re talking about. Just annoying that I’d have 2 workarounds, since I always have that alias on my machine (all my aliases are in a repo, linked between machines). I’ll look into this at some point, seems do-able that we could pull in user aliases or user info at some point in the build/sandbox

I'm dealing with a similar issue at work (we use a docker proxy script calling podman etc..). You can configure the docker section in pants.toml with stuff like 'executable_search_paths' and 'env_vars'. Might help you to resolve a proxy script and setting additional env vars. Also note that pants parses the ID of the built mage out of the docker build output. That part is not yet working in my setup

does podman present the image id in the output?

I thought it does but slightly different then docker. This way Pants does not "grep" it. Should be fixable

exactly, I was thinking if this should be configurable to cope with different tools, or simply hardcoded for the known ones as they come up..

Weird, I didn’t have any issues using this at runtime - once I put the shim in

https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/20470 😉

❤️

Yeah. It just looks for podman instead of docker. So functionally the same as symlinking