minikube addons enable registry fails on Podman (rootless)

[jooftian]

What happened

I tried to enable the registry addon using:

minikube addons enable registry

It failed with:

❌  ... enable failed: run callbacks: running callbacks: [waiting for kubernetes.io/minikube-addons=registry pods: context deadline exceeded]

Additional context

In another terminal, I checked the pod status:

kubectl describe pod registry-proxy-xxxxx -n kube-system

The pod was stuck in ContainerCreating, with repeated sandbox errors like:

Failed to create pod sandbox: ... failed to setup network for sandbox ... could not insert 'ip_tables': Operation not permitted

Full message:

modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'ip_tables': Operation not permitted
iptables v1.8.7 (legacy): can't initialize iptables table `nat': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)

Environment

• Minikube version:

minikube version: v1.35.0
commit: dd5d320e41b5451cdf3c01891bc4e13d189586ed-dirty

• OS: Fedora 42
• Driver: Podman (rootless)
• Container runtime: containerd

Attach the log file

log.txt

minikube_addons_a4fe86e99845e102d4e73c94aae831dab434b0c1_0.log

Operating System

Redhat/Fedora

Driver

Podman

[jooftian]

Just as a follow-up: I looked through the Minikube documentation but couldn’t find any specific page or section about the registry addon.