From 9c1d5b456d916c68f41f471bfe8ea13fc69b80fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Weinberg <31703736+nathan-weinberg@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 02:10:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [Doc] add podman setup instructions for official image
 (#16796)

Signed-off-by: Nathan Weinberg <nweinber@redhat.com>
---
 docs/source/deployment/docker.md | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/source/deployment/docker.md b/docs/source/deployment/docker.md
index 6b794db656c05..ca56710bc2ef2 100644
--- a/docs/source/deployment/docker.md
+++ b/docs/source/deployment/docker.md
@@ -19,6 +19,18 @@ $ docker run --runtime nvidia --gpus all \
     --model mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1
 ```
 
+This image can also be used with other container engines such as [Podman](https://podman.io/).
+
+```console
+$ podman run --gpus all \
+  -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
+  --env "HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN=$HF_TOKEN" \
+  -p 8000:8000 \
+  --ipc=host \
+  vllm/vllm-openai:latest \
+  --model mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1
+```
+
 You can add any other <project:#engine-args> you need after the image tag (`vllm/vllm-openai:latest`).
 
 :::{note}