Accessing resources behind a VPN with Podman on Windows

On Windows, if Podman needs to access resources behind a user-controlled VPN, enable user mode networking in your Podman machine.

Prerequisites

• Windows host with updated WSL2.
• Podman 4.6.0 or greater.

Procedure

• Create a custom Podman machine, with the User mode networking (traffic relayed by a user process) option enabled.

Verification

• You can now access resources that are behind the VPN.