Podman 5, a local graph node and a Mac M3 – a two day journey

I'm using the graph for indexing. During dev, I'm running a local graph node with docker-compose against a local blockchain. This all worked fine on my Mac with podman. Then I upgraded podman to v5. Little did I understand the implications...

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Ethereal, nerd, buidler. Also interested in woodworking, blockchain games, and travel.

Podman 5 needs new machines and in the process I deleted my graph-node image. Trying to re-build it didn't work, because the apple native hypervisor that podman 5 uses doesn't allow machines with more memory than physically available.

However, building the graph image requires lots of RAM, which I didn't have. After a lot of back and forth, the solution was to spin up an EC2 instance with enough memory, build the image there and then use it locally. Had I only had that idea a little earlier...

Now everything is working again! 😃