Chapter 3. Configure proxy settings on Linux

Procedure

1. To use a proxy in your containers, perform the following steps:

   1. Open the containers.conf file.

      Note

      To know about the containers.conf file location, refer to the Control network traffic flow with proxy section.

   2. Set the value of the proxy environment variables to pass to the Podman engine in the file:

      [engine]
      env = ["http_proxy=<your.proxy.tld:port>", "https_proxy=<your.proxy.tld:port>"]

2. Optional: To use a custom CA in your proxy, perform the following steps:

   1. Run the following command to copy the certificate to the Podman machine:

      $ sudo cp proxy_ca.pem /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors/

   2. Run the following command to add your proxy certificate to the trust store:

      $ sudo update-ca-trust

3. Run the following command to restart all podman processes.

   $ pkill podman

Verification

1. Go to Images from the left navigation pane.

2. Click Pull an image.

   • Image to Pull: Enter an image name, such as quay.io/podman/hello.
3. Click Pull image. Red Hat build of Podman Desktop reports Download complete after a while.
4. Click Done.