Minikube cluster not visible on the Resources page when created with Podman driver in Podman Desktop

[amisskii]

When creating a Minikube cluster via Podman Desktop with the default driver set to Podman, the cluster information and control buttons do not appear on the Resources page, and there is no Minikube container listed on the Containers page. However, if the Minikube cluster is created using the Docker driver, the cluster is visible on the Resources page, and a Minikube container is also visible.

Extension version: v0.3.0
OS: Fedora 40

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install the Minikube extension.
2. Install Minikube CLI
   minikube should run in rootful mode
3. Navigate to Settings → Resources page.
4. Go to the Minikube cluster creation page.
5. Ensure the Podman driver is selected.
6. Create the Minikube cluster.

[afbjorklund]

The code is looking for the label name.minikube.sigs.k8s.io on the node container.

Note that by default minikube uses the system podman, while PD shows user podman:

https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/drivers/podman/#rootless-podman

• Implement option to view rootful containers on Linux 🐧 podman-desktop#2861

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If you deployed rootless with Docker, you would probably have the same issue?

Since Podman Desktop can only show system docker, but not the user docker...

https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/rootless/

• Make the docker socker path configurable (eg. to support rootless docker) podman-desktop#3893

[amisskii]

@afbjorklund Thank you for your comment. I've tried to investigate it further, but it seems that when I deploy a Minikube cluster with the system Podman, it still doesn't appear.

[afbjorklund]

Does it appear in sudo podman ps in the terminal?

[amisskii]

Yes, there is log output:

sudo podman ps
CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                                COMMAND     CREATED        STATUS        PORTS                                                                                                                                                   NAMES
d93ae3067ce0  gcr.io/k8s-minikube/kicbase:v0.0.45              2 minutes ago  Up 2 minutes  127.0.0.1:39645->22/tcp, 127.0.0.1:46529->2376/tcp, 127.0.0.1:37253->5000/tcp, 127.0.0.1:39475->8443/tcp, 127.0.0.1:38349->32443/tcp, 22/tcp, 8443/tcp  minikube

However, I don't see it on the resources page or as a container on the containers page.

On the Kubernetes page, it shows that I'm connected to the cluster, and I can see the running cluster node.

[amisskii]

The issue was caused by my local Minikube configuration. Setting Minikube to rootless mode solved it: minikube config set rootless true