How to install podman-compose in an air-gapped network?

[DaleBinghamSoteriaSoft]

The question I have : What is the best way to install podman-compose into an air gapped (no outside Internet) network? If this is in a lab, a secure environment, or some other machine or network that has no way to run pip install podman-compose?

I do not see a way to do that from this site or podman.io. I have searched for this from other folks/articles and came up empty. Short of "install on a networked machine, make an image, push to your air-gapped network" I cannot find or think of one. And that is not an easy upgrade path when it changes.

Or do we wait for podman 5.x with podman compose built in?

[p12tic]

You can simply copy podman_compose.py file and call it directly. You will need pyyaml and dotnev installed. On Debian-based distributions these are in python3-dotnev and python3-yaml packages.

[p12tic]

By the way, podman compose will just call docker-compose or podman-compose, whichever is installed. So if you choose podman-compose it still needs to be installed.

[DaleBinghamSoteriaSoft]

Ok thank you @p12tic this is on REL 8.x box but air-gapped.

So either do the podman_compose.py with the extra packages. OR install the docker-compose binary and then call podman compose.

We have pulled the latest from the RPM but 8.8 only pulls podman 4.6.1 I believe currently. We have to try podman 5 as well.

We will try this and see what we get. I appreciate it.

[apeteri]

@DaleBinghamSoteriaSoft You might want to download and install .whl files (wheels, ie. binary distributions) from PyPI then:

• https://pypi.org/project/python-dotenv/#files
• https://pypi.org/project/podman-compose/#files
• IIRC PyYAML is already included in not-the-absolute-smallest package selection of RHEL as package python3-pyyaml

Installing these by hand would be more or less equivalent to using the pip install method.

[muayyad-alsadi]

You can download the tarball

curl -sSLO https://github.com/containers/podman-compose/archive/main.tar.gz

You can pick any version or tag instead of main.

pip3 install file.tar.gz

But as others said it's a single file script you can just put the file in bin and chmod +x

[DaleBinghamSoteriaSoft]

Thank you both for that information. I will try those.

[p12tic]

There have been a number of suggestions, so it makes sense to close the issue. Please reopen if none of the suggestions work.