Recently I started using colima[0], a drop in replacement for Docker Desktop on Mac, and have seen an increase in performance and battery life. You can use all the normal docker and docker compose commands.
It does not have a GUI but you can use the Docker extension on VS Code to have an overview of running containers.
Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop
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Re: Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop
#32Pity it's only available as a tarball or .flatpak. I've never got flatpak to work before, and it doesn't work this time either. :-(
Re: Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop
#33I’m using (as individual, so for free) Docker Desktop on my M1 Apple silicon. It works great. Could someone tell me the benefits of switching to Podman? I like that Podman is open source, though.
Edit: I’m using it for free.
Re: Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop
#34Echoing others, is there a benefit running this over Docker? I recently setup portainer and Docker on my homelab and had everything running in about 30 min. Is there a benefit to migrate to podman?
The main benefits touted are that Podman can run rootless containers and it doesn’t need a daemon compared to Docker. However those comparisons are less relevant now than they were a while ago because Docker can now run rootless containers and Podman has developed a heap of systemd hooks that effectively use that as the daemon. It does have some good features though, like being compatible with Kubernetes manifests.
If you’re happy with portainer and Docker I wouldn’t bother migrating.
Re: Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop
#35I’m using (as individual, so for free) Docker Desktop on my M1 Apple silicon. It works great. Could someone tell me the benefits of switching to Podman? I like that Podman is open source, though. Edit: I’m using it for free.
Biggest benefit is that it's open source and free - for business use Docker Desktop is a paid service
Re: Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop
#36Can I use this to manage sudo containers? It's slightly amusing to see the desktop creates a podman daemon, so maybe you could create a sudo podman daemon for use with the desktop somehow?
Re: Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop
#37Recently I started using colima[0], a drop in replacement for Docker Desktop on Mac, and have seen an increase in performance and battery life. You can use all the normal docker and docker compose commands. It does not have a GUI but you can use the Docker extension on VS Code to have an overview of running containers. [0] https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
Best part: it's QEMU so you can choose your CPU architecture and run x86_64 containers on ARM Macs
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#38Talking about containers: is there an easy way to run “system” containers? This is, containers that run systemd and everything else you would expect to be running on a normal Linux OS. I rely heavily on VMs to simulate cloud environments, but I would love to use lightweight containers instead. Also, these “system” containers should be able to run containers inside them as well (docker in docker?).
I saw something on github the other day that may work (can’t remember the name, something about “box”), but it wasn’t available for Macos.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me the main reason to use Podman over Docker is rootless containers. Another one is also that Docker is really not pleasant to install on Linux.
> Another one is also that Docker is really not pleasant to install on Linux. I'm curious on which Linux did you encounter issues while installing Docker? I cannot comment on the (to me somewhat pointless) Docker Desktop GUI installation on Linux, but I can confidently report that installing and using docker engine on Ubuntu, at least, is quite trivial and clearly documented[0] on the website. [0] https://docs.docker…
First of: It has been some time since I last installed Docker. It actually was on Ubuntu and a properly current version was not in the distro repositories, so I had to add a new repository and it installed plenty of extra dependencies. It's not hard, but also not really pleasant.
It also seems like Docker is now able to run rootless as well, so my nitpicks are actually more minor than I originally thought. It's still not daemonless, but it would work for my use case still I think.
Re: Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop
#40There's also Rancher Desktop in the same space, which includes k3s as a local K8s solution. For personal use I found it great and lighter than Docker Desktop. At work, unfortunately all options but Docker Desktop have issues with either 1) Our Cisco AnyConnect VPN, or 2) Our authenticated http proxy. Couldn't find anything else providing a container runtime + a local k8s on MacOS that works in this environment. So we…
I had similar issues with a different VPN/Proxy at an earlier role. I solved with https://github.com/sakai135/wsl-vpnkit and trusting the root certificate of the proxy on the rancher desktop WSL2 vm (Assuming you're on Windows as I was).
Docker desktop pays for itself by solving these issues though IMO (I wasn't able to get a licence at the old role however)