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I've seen podman advertised as a dropin docker replacement. how valid is that assertion?
I wasted my time trying podman and switched to colima. It's the only usable free alternative that's a true drop-in replacement for docker.
I'm glad they have podman desktop. Personally though, once I realized that I can use the command line version without it (unlike docker in my experience) I uninstalled it as I don't really need the UI / KIND, etc. For me the command line is fine and having something where I don't have to first shell into wsl is great (it just runs it itself behind the scenes). Of course, Linux is generally better for development imo…
Cool for Podman Desktop though.
I've seen podman advertised as a dropin docker replacement. how valid is that assertion?
Why podman and not Docker?
I'm glad they have podman desktop. Personally though, once I realized that I can use the command line version without it (unlike docker in my experience) I uninstalled it as I don't really need the UI / KIND, etc. For me the command line is fine and having something where I don't have to first shell into wsl is great (it just runs it itself behind the scenes). Of course, Linux is generally better for development imo…
For mac, wouldn't it be just easier to use lima from cli? How does Podman compare to that? Docker unless on Linux has always being a bloat. Or are there any lightweight hypervisor on top of firecracker alternative? At this point with the way systemd is going, we should just switch back to VM? Everything is just more mature on native OS install. Docker to Linux, just feels kinda like SPA reinventing the html parsing o…
I've seen podman advertised as a dropin docker replacement. how valid is that assertion?
I'm glad they have podman desktop. Personally though, once I realized that I can use the command line version without it (unlike docker in my experience) I uninstalled it as I don't really need the UI / KIND, etc. For me the command line is fine and having something where I don't have to first shell into wsl is great (it just runs it itself behind the scenes). Of course, Linux is generally better for development imo…
For mac, wouldn't it be just easier to use lima from cli? How does Podman compare to that? Docker unless on Linux has always being a bloat. Or are there any lightweight hypervisor on top of firecracker alternative? At this point with the way systemd is going, we should just switch back to VM? Everything is just more mature on native OS install. Docker to Linux, just feels kinda like SPA reinventing the html parsing o…
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> unlike docker in my experience You have piqued my curiosity. What does Docker Desktop do that the CLI cannot?
Since they mention Windows, I believe this is a reference to the fact that you cannot (easily) install the Docker CLI without Docker Desktop. Podman does not have this issue.
Why podman and not Docker?
With Docker, I found rootless setup to be a PITA, despite having experience with unprivileged LXC containers. The manager daemon constantly consumed system resources even when no containers were running. Docker upgrades sometimes refused to run my containers until I chased down whatever storage driver problem they introduced in the latest version.
When the most recent upgrade broke my containers yet again, I decided to give Podman a try. Setup was a breeze. There is no management daemon wasting resources. My containers just worked. Even the little cron script I wrote to query Docker for pending image updates just worked with Podman tools.
I think Podman also makes it easy to map host uids to non-root container uids, which ought to help me reduce attack surface. (I haven't actually tried this feature yet.) Last time I checked, Docker did not.
So far, I couldn't be happier.
I've seen podman advertised as a dropin docker replacement. how valid is that assertion?