bravemonkey

I’m running a rootless podman container listening on port 8080 on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

From the same host, there's no problem accessing the container. Trying to access the container remotely fails due to firewalld blocking the connection.

What I don't understand is this:

If I configure firewalld to forward port 80 to the container on port 8080 using

firewall-cmd --add-forward-port=port=80:proto=tcp:toport=8080

I can access the container from a remote computer using port 80.

However, if I try:

firewall-cmd --add-forward-port=port=8080:proto=tcp:toport=8080

I'm not able to reach the container. It seems that every port I try will work except for port 8080 in this case, and I can't find any references explaining why this might be the case.

What's going on here? Is it a conflict by trying to forward a port to itself? Is there any way to allow port 8080? Trying to allow port 8080 in the public zone fails as well.

I'm new to Podman and so far have been completely frustrated by it.
I don't know if the issue is with the container or Podman since there are just no logs.

I'm trying to run Stirling-PDF, using this command:

podman run -d
-p 8080:8080
-v /location/of/trainingData:/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/5/tessdata
-v /location/of/extraConfigs:/configs
-v /location/of/logs:/logs
-e DOCKER_ENABLE_SECURITY=false
--name stirling-pdf
frooodle/s-pdf:latest

With Docker, I have no issue running the this container. Under Podman the container immediately exits without logs - podman logs stirling-pdf shows nothing.

The same thing happens running the same command with sudo or without sudo but using --rootful. I've also tried removing '-e DOCKER_ENABLE_SECURITY=false ' since it's very Docker specific.

I can run podman run -dt --name webserver -p 8081:80 quay.io/libpod/banner with no issues, so is this something incompatible with the container?

I feel like I'm missing something obvious - like where are the logs?

I'm running on OpenSUSE-Tumbleweed, Podman version 4.9.0