Is it possible to run renovate action with podman instead of docker

[dstyevsky]

Hello!

I am wondering if someone could advise me if it is possible to use Renovate github action with Podman instead of Docker.
Our team wants to use renovate action on GitHub enterprise server, and we do not have docker installed on runners in our setup, and there is no chance this state of things will change, but we have Podman as an alternative. We have also found out that renovate depends on docker installation, so the questions are:

1. Is it possible to use renovate with Podman?
2. If not - is it planned in future versions?
3. Should it work in case action is rebuilt with changing line 79 in renovate.ts from

const command = `docker run ${dockerArguments.join(' ')}`;

to

const command = `podman run ${dockerArguments.join(' ')}`;

Thanks a lot!

[viceice]

not yet. maybe we can make an optiopnal input to switch to use podman instead of docker

[sergeyscherba]

An optional input would be absolutely great

[kastl-ars]

As I just hit the same issue:

I have not tested it, but in most cases adding an alias for docker, simply pointing to podman, works. Some distributions also offer a compatibility package that contains the docker executable as a link to podman.

But yes, I would also really like to see an optional input switch for this (for cases where the environment is not under my control).