11–20 of 152 posts
I never tried Podman. I guess the benefit is that it runs on demand and not as a always on demon? How does one install podman on Debian and how does one get a Debian image to run inside podman?
Podman has much better systemd integration: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/quadlet-podman
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Runs on demand, doesn't require root, can be nested, usually uses newer and simpler primitives (e.g. a few nftables rules in Podman vs iptables spaghetti in Docker). In my experience it is ~90% compatible with Docker. The author explains the practical differences in the blog post https://www.edu4rdshl.dev/posts/from-docker-to-podman-full-m... It is usually easier to install - most distros ship relatively recent versi…
Careful, the version in Debian 12 is old and apparently just barely predates the "good" versions. I had so many problems that I went back to Docker, because current Podman didn't seem to be trivially installable on Debian 12.
What if I'm using docker-compose?
What if I'm using docker-compose?
Use podman-compose? https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-compose.1.h... https://github.com/containers/podman-compose
This was for some hobby project, so I didn't spend a ton of time, but it definitely wasn't as set-and-forget as Docker was. I believe I had to set up a separate VM or something? This was on Linux as the host OS too. It's been a while, so apologies for the hazy memory.
Or it's very possible that I botched the entire setup. In my perfect world, it's a quick install and then `podman run`. Maybe it's time to give it another go.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Careful, the version in Debian 12 is old and apparently just barely predates the "good" versions. I had so many problems that I went back to Docker, because current Podman didn't seem to be trivially installable on Debian 12.
In general, if one is happy to run very old versions of software Debian can be your driver. If not, you are in for pain in my experience. (That is also why Ubuntu as default Linux is a tragedy, old bugs and missing features mean that it is not really attractive to officially support Linux for vendors.)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Careful, the version in Debian 12 is old and apparently just barely predates the "good" versions. I had so many problems that I went back to Docker, because current Podman didn't seem to be trivially installable on Debian 12.
I did not have this same experience, all my VPS successfully run Debian’s podman package with zero issue running containers.
Has Podman become more user friendly in recent years? I gave it a go about three or four years ago now when Docker began their commercial push (which I don't have an issue with). This was for some hobby project, so I didn't spend a ton of time, but it definitely wasn't as set-and-forget as Docker was. I believe I had to set up a separate VM or something? This was on Linux as the host OS too. It's been a while, so apo…
Has Podman become more user friendly in recent years? I gave it a go about three or four years ago now when Docker began their commercial push (which I don't have an issue with). This was for some hobby project, so I didn't spend a ton of time, but it definitely wasn't as set-and-forget as Docker was. I believe I had to set up a separate VM or something? This was on Linux as the host OS too. It's been a while, so apo…
It's all daemonless, rootless and runs directly with your host kernel so it should be as simple as it an application of this kind gets. Probably you followed some instructions somewhere that involved whatever the podman equivalent for docker-machine is?