Installing Podman Desktop and Podman in a restricted environment

Consider using the Windows installer for restricted environments to install the Podman Desktop and Podman in a restricted environment.

The Windows installer for restricted environments:

• Has all artifacts required to install Podman Desktop and Podman.
• Does not require Internet access to download resources during installation.
• Does not contain additional utilities such as Compose or Kind.

Prerequisites

• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) prerequisites

  • User with administrator privileges
  • Windows 64bit
  • Windows 10 Build 18362 or greater, or Windows 11
  • On a virtual machine: Nested Virtualization enabled

• You installed WSL:

  > wsl --install --no-distribution

Procedure

1. Download the Windows installer for restricted environments, and copy the downloaded file to the Windows host in a restricted environment.
2. Run the Windows installer for restricted environments to install Podman Desktop.
3. Open Podman Desktop and click the Install button to install Podman.
4. (Optionally) Configure Podman Desktop to run behind your proxy.
5. (Optionally) Configure Podman to run behind your VPN.
6. Create and start a Podman machine

Next steps

• Onboard for container workloads.
• Onboard for Kubernetes workloads.