bug: minikube cannot start on native linux by default

[axel7083]

Description

If the rootless config is not (not set by default), minikube will not be able to start a cluster on linux. This can be fixed by opening a terminal and running minikube config set rootless true.

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Logs

* minikube v1.34.0 on Fedora 41

  - MINIKUBE_HOME=/home/axel7083/.local/share/minikube

* Using the podman driver based on existing profile

X Exiting due to PROVIDER_PODMAN_NOT_RUNNING: "sudo -n -k podman version --format <no value>" exit status 1: sudo: a password is required
* Suggestion: Add your user to the 'sudoers' file: 'axel7083 ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/podman' , or run 'minikube config set rootless true'
* Documentation: https://podman.io


Command execution failed with exit code 63

Proposal solution

They seems to support MINIKUBE_ROOTLESS=true, so we could provide this env variable when creating the cluster. We can add a new option in the form minikube rootless, disabled by default expect on linux?

[afbjorklund]

As far as I know, minikube on podman rootless is rather buggy - at least when using the default docker runtime:

https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/drivers/podman/

The recommendation is to use containerd, i.e. the same configuration that kind is using for rootless podman

minikube start --driver=podman --container-runtime=containerd

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It would be good to make minikube run better with it.

But that would probably require some code changes.