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Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop

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Re: Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop

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Post by petre »

AnonCoward42 wrote: post #18
matai_kolila wrote: post #11

Am I just a dum dum for not getting this to drop-in replace Docker Desktop for my relatively simple projects? Has anyone else experienced the problematic practicalities of switching, or should I just spend a bit more time with it?

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.

And pods and not needing a daemon to run them among other things. Docker is still easier precisely because it has a daemon that automatically just starts up your countainers thay you've configured to run at startup, without the need to create systemd unit files.

Re: Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop

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Post by florentbenoit »

404mm wrote: post #41

Sort of off-topic. I noticed they publish Universal, intel and arm builds for MacOS. I’m struggling to understand why would they build all three? Why not do either universal or split arch?

It's just to download smaller files.

For example if you're using homebrew it will download the right specific file.

And universal is there so that people don't bother to know which arch is their computer.

Re: Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop

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Post by florentbenoit »

matai_kolila wrote: post #11

Am I just a dum dum for not getting this to drop-in replace Docker Desktop for my relatively simple projects? Has anyone else experienced the problematic practicalities of switching, or should I just spend a bit more time with it?

They can run side by side and Podman Desktop is also able to show you all Docker containers, images, etc.

Re: Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop

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Post by moondev »

I have been experimenting with the arm64 windows dev kit, neither docker desktop, podman desktop or rancher desktop had arm64 builds. Installing the amd64 builds did not work either.

I was surprised to find out wsl2 now supports systemd

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/systemd-support-i...

I was able to install docker normally inside wsl2 and it worked perfectly. No "desktop" app needed. This will be a game changer when it hits GA

Re: Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop

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Post by rb12345 »

tkiolp4 wrote: post #38

Talking 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…

LXC/LXD are probably the closest to that on Linux, although I'm not sure about nesting containers.

Re: Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop

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Post by MikeKusold »

tkiolp4 wrote: post #38

Talking 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…

Proxmox allows you to launch LXC containers via a UI. I use it at home and I'm able to run Docker in both a privileged LXC and an unprivileged LXC.
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