This driver is experimental and in active development. Help wanted!
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The podman driver is another kubernetes in container driver for minikube. similar to [docker](https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/drivers/docker/) driver. The podman driver is experimental, and only supported on Linux and macOS (with a remote podman server).
The podman driver is an alternative container runtime to the [Docker]({{<ref"/docs/drivers/docker.md>}}) driver.
- Podman driver is not supported on non-amd64 architectures such as arm yet. For non-amd64 archs please use [other drivers]({{<ref"/docs/drivers/_index.md">}})
- Podman requirements passwordless running of sudo. If you run into an error about sudo, do the following:
```shell
$ sudo visudo
```
Then append the following to the section *at the very bottom* of the file where `username` is your user account.
```shell
username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/podman
```
Be sure this text is *after*`#includedir /etc/sudoers.d`. To confirm it worked, try:
```shell
sudo-k-n podman version
```
## Troubleshooting
- Run `minikube start --alsologtostderr -v=7` to debug errors and crashes