Unable to setup ea-podman on CloudLinux+CageFS servers

Symptoms

Attempting to install an ea-podman container on an account mounted in CageFS gives errors such as the following:

CONFIG_TEXT: Can't exec "podman": No such file or directory at /opt/cpanel/ea-podman/lib/ea_podman/util.pm line 90.
Failed to create container

CONFIG_TEXT: Cannot open “/etc/cpanel/ea4/ea4-metainfo.json”: No such file or directory at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/JSON.pm line 272.

Cause

On cPanel servers, containers via ea-podman can be used to install a few software packages independently and separately from the rest of the server. These applications will also run as the user account.

• Redis
• Memcached
• Tomcat

The Podman software doesn't usually run from inside a jail like CageFS and will return errors. To run podman containers inside of CageFS, you must configure a few additional settings and files on the server.

Resolution

CloudLinux provides up to date instructions on how to configure ea-podman with CageFS in their knowledge base:

 ea-podman in CageFS

Note: A server administrator is needed to perform these steps.