Podman push not verbose and VM out of sync

Question

Docker recently announced a Policy Pricing change and while I am waiting for the official position of the company I am working with I decided to migrate to podman. I know there are differences between Docker and podman.

On Mac using these commands I have an environment pretty similar to the previous one:

brew install podman
podman machine init
podman machine start
ln -s /usr/local/bin/podman /usr/local/bin/docker

The ln command is useful to still use docker command instead of podman. ln is better than alias because there are some command lines (i.e. ibmcloud) that require an executable for docker command and alias don't work.

then in the .bash_profile I added to avoid to specify --format=docker at every docker build command:

export BUILDAH_FORMAT=docker

Now I have two issues I don't know how to address:

1. docker push is not verbose, so I cannot see progress. For a large build, this is not a good user experience. However, this behavior is strange because podman push has a --quiet option and this let me think by default it should be verbose.

2. When I put my Mac on pause, the podman VM goes out of time sync. This is a problem when I run commands like:

apt-get update

when I build docker images because the build always gets this error:

E: Release file for http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic-updates/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 10h 44min 40s).

I know I can log in on podman VM with podman machine ssh command and install tools like ntpupdate but if I destroy the VM I need to do it every time. Another approach is to stop/start the podman machine. Is there a better solution to this problem?

Answer 1

In the discussion of https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/11541

I noticed below solution works for me

$ podman machine ssh "sudo systemctl restart systemd-timesyncd.service"