Since Podman 4.1 came out with full Compose 2.x compatibility, I'm running Podman on Docker's socket, but using Docker's CLI to talk to it, so that I can use the buildx and compose CLI plugins. It works great, Docker's CLI doesn't seem to have any clue that it's talking to not-Docker. I even have VSCode's Docker extension and Remote Containers working this way.
Docker is dead? Podman – an alternative tool?
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Re: Docker is dead? Podman – an alternative tool?
#12Why not both? Since Podman 4.1 came out with full Compose 2.x compatibility, I'm running Podman on Docker's socket, but using Docker's CLI to talk to it, so that I can use the buildx and compose CLI plugins. It works great, Docker's CLI doesn't seem to have any clue that it's talking to not-Docker. I even have VSCode's Docker extension and Remote Containers working this way.
Re: Docker is dead? Podman – an alternative tool?
#13Re: Docker is dead? Podman – an alternative tool?
#14Think it is rapidly moving towards being more of a data carrier/format rather than being dead per se. Half the time you're jamming it into some cloud service anyway where you have no idea what GCP/fly/aws is using under the hood to actually run it. Meaning this discussion is more relevant to the self-hosted context. In which case I'd say containerization isn't really security. So in my mind that residual risk of the…
Re: Docker is dead? Podman – an alternative tool?
#15Think it is rapidly moving towards being more of a data carrier/format rather than being dead per se. Half the time you're jamming it into some cloud service anyway where you have no idea what GCP/fly/aws is using under the hood to actually run it. Meaning this discussion is more relevant to the self-hosted context. In which case I'd say containerization isn't really security. So in my mind that residual risk of the…
Re: Docker is dead? Podman – an alternative tool?
#16Re: Docker is dead? Podman – an alternative tool?
#17Docker for Desktop went from being complete garbage to a really nice product. I think Docker folks are heavily focused on providing great local development experiences, which is a niche few other products are covering.
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#18Re: Docker is dead? Podman – an alternative tool?
#19Docker for Desktop went from being complete garbage to a really nice product. I think Docker folks are heavily focused on providing great local development experiences, which is a niche few other products are covering.
What exactly does Docker for Desktop do? All it seems to me is a slightly annoying non-free GUI application I need to use docker cli from Windows or Mac.
Re: Docker is dead? Podman – an alternative tool?
#20Why not both? Since Podman 4.1 came out with full Compose 2.x compatibility, I'm running Podman on Docker's socket, but using Docker's CLI to talk to it, so that I can use the buildx and compose CLI plugins. It works great, Docker's CLI doesn't seem to have any clue that it's talking to not-Docker. I even have VSCode's Docker extension and Remote Containers working this way.