run eclipse docker tooling with Podman backend on Windows-CodePudding

want to use Eclipse with Podman backend on Windows. I have Podman Desktop installed and the podman context is:

Name URI Identity Default podman-machine-default ssh://user@localhost:64926/run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock C:\Users\me.ssh\podman-machine-default true podman-machine-default-root ssh://root@localhost:64926/run/podman/podman.sock C:\Users\me.ssh\podman-machine-default false

Eclipse's Docker tooling has a setting for Container engine like the following:

It takes either a unix socket or a TCP connection, but none of them accept the value specified by Podman URI like ssh://user@localhost:64926/run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock.

Is there a workaround I can connect Eclipse to Podman engine on Windows?

CodePudding user response：

There is a workaround that I learned from Red Hat engineer Jason Greene to make Eclipse Docker Tooling (EDT) work with Podman as a backend:
First, create a ssh connection to the podman machine with the L flag and expose a TCP proxy on a specific port.

podman machine ssh -- "-L5555:/run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock" -N

Then, in the TCP connection section of New Docker Connection dialog enter: tcp://localhost:5555. The tooling will connect to the remote podman engine and can perform container operations.