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Re: Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion

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Post by cholantesh »

maccard wrote: post #184
cholantesh wrote: post #182

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Yeah, but how often are they needed?

My last job we ran very significant public workloads on windows containers. I don’t know the number of requests but it’s a multi million user application all around the world.

Interesting; I may be biased because I've been involved in helping teams containerize as part of a cloud migration and only one or two cases has there been a real 'need', basically for running a Windows service that was eventually retired in favour of a lambda triggered by consuming a message in a queue.

Re: Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion

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Post by maccard »

cholantesh wrote: post #191
maccard wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My last job we ran very significant public workloads on windows containers. I don’t know the number of requests but it’s a multi million user application all around the world.

Interesting; I may be biased because I've been involved in helping teams containerize as part of a cloud migration and only one or two cases has there been a real 'need', basically for running a Windows service that was eventually retired in favour of a lambda triggered by consuming a message in a queue.

We were waaaaay too big to fit in lambda layers. Our containers were 8GB when I left, and that was using all sorts of tricks on the host infra to share data between running containers.

The root of the problem was we had third party tools which were windows only.

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Post by Alupis »

GiorgioG wrote: post #165
Alupis wrote: post #99

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I have found that people who are adamant haters of k8s, usually truly do not understand k8s or the issues it solves. It's not for everyone - but having a knee-jerk allergic reaction to anything k8s is silly. That said - k8s isn't just about scaling, or for "web scale" companies. If you are a person that believes that, it means you are the type of person I am talking about.

I don’t hate k8s, I hate that everyone blindly adopts it without understanding the complexity it adds. I understand it well enough to know YAGNI for most applications. Get over yourself, just because you disagree with me doesn’t mean I’m stupid.

It seems you don't really understand it at all. That's the problem.

Re: Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion

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Post by Saris »

bubaumba wrote: post #132
brailsafe wrote: post #116

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I don't necessarily want docker containers running locally as some hobbyist, they might be just part of the process, and if the gui helps me move through that process efficiently without having to add more commands to my memory, I'm happy about that. CLIs are great, but when nearly everything has one, those small amount of commands become quite a lot in aggregate.

there are ways to minimize memorization, most important: 1. keep log, docs, records of whatever you are doing. most commands are repetitive. 2. copilot or chatgpt, they help a lot with command lines and simple utilities 3. amazon Q sucks in comparison. 4. it used to be google, but now LLMs do it better. less scrolling and ads/spam.

My preferred solution is to have a GUI, then I don't need to do anything extra to remember CLI commands.

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Post by leonheld »

arjvik wrote: post #48
leonheld wrote: post #35

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I love kind! Used it a lot when I was writing my thesis on Kubernetes schedulers.

Curious to see your thesis!

It's not much, just a simple bachelor thesis https://repositorio.ufsc.br/bitstream/handle/123456789/24495....

I mostly wanted to provide a software/hardware playground for my advisors who were working on their own thesis about algorithms for energy-aware IoT edge deployments.

The TLDR is that you can write algorithms to minimize various parameters within a Kubernetes cluster, like energy consumption.

Re: Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion

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Post by istoica »

nerdponx wrote: post #112

Nice! Unfortunately I got this error upon opening the Mac app: Uncaught Exception: TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'setImage') at NativeTheme. (file:///Applications/Container%20Desktop.app/ Contents/Resources/app.asar/build/main-5.2.3.mjs:22:537771) at NativeTheme.emit (node:events:519:28) Nothing seems to be wrong, but that was surprising. Also, it's not obvious from the site that Container Deskto…

Thanks, just released 5.2.4 to address the flatpak issue you mention above. I am sorry for that, it is extremely hard to support so many formats on linux.

I am documenting myself as much as I can to be able to publish to flatpak hub, but there is a lot to get to do it properly.

Re: Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion

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Post by istoica »

hi-v-rocknroll wrote: post #97

It's not fully baked. Sigh - Buggy as heck with bad error messages. - Bad UX with inadequate help. - Requires extra tweaking and installing more stuff to get going, which defeats its entire purpose. - Confusing. - Can't browse or choose tags of images. It's not a viable alternative yet, but maybe it will improve sometime in the future.

Creating some tickets would help improve what you find problematic. I understand your frustration, you would want it to just work , but life isn’t always how we want it to be either. It is a free and open source project, no hidden goals, driven only by passion and love for tech.

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Post by istoica »

TechSquidTV wrote: post #121

I saw this, I think posted here the other day, looked interesting. https://github.com/ajayd-san/gomanagedocker A TUI alternative.

I like TUIs a lot too, they work great for remote connections and just feel good. I even mention one in the Readme of the repo, maybe some could create an awesome tui tools type of page for container management UIs

Re: Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion

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Post by istoica »

delduca wrote: post #80

Is another crap electron app?

Author of the project here, yes! - electron done well is amazing, try to write a cross platform gui app in a RAD way these days with other tech. I am experienced in flutter too and would still stick to the curent stack. Maybe one day when text engine is better in flutter i would port it. You cant be that cross platform, cross os, cross arch with anything better than electron these days. Electron done well shouldn’t create any problems.
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