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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 JoyrexJ9 »

moondev wrote: post #47

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…

Been running Docker under WSL for a few years. Don't need systemd if you're either happy to start it manually with an alias or poke it into one of your profile/logon scripts.

The experience is light-years ahead of the monstrosity that is Docker Desktop

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

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Post by jscheel »

onlycoffee wrote: post #135
jscheel wrote: post #58

I'd just love to know if Docker is ever going to fix the issue where my computer kernel panics when going into hibernation if my macbook is unplugged and docker is running. Had an open, reproducible issue for a quite while that has affected lots of other folks too, but no real recognition from Docker.

Google Mac hibernate issues. Over 1 million results. Windows, over 3 million. I gave up on hibernation being a valid concept in the 1990's, there's too many things that can go wrong and computers are more complex today.I don't use hibernation and Docker has no issues.

I mean, I've never had any other issue with it. This is clearly a docker problem.

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

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Post by onlycoffee »

jscheel wrote: post #192
onlycoffee wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google Mac hibernate issues. Over 1 million results. Windows, over 3 million. I gave up on hibernation being a valid concept in the 1990's, there's too many things that can go wrong and computers are more complex today.I don't use hibernation and Docker has no issues.

I mean, I've never had any other issue with it. This is clearly a docker problem.

1 million Mac and 3 million Windows users most of whom probably don't know what docker is let alone run it; would like to disagree.

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

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Post by jscheel »

onlycoffee wrote: post #193
jscheel wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, I've never had any other issue with it. This is clearly a docker problem.

1 million Mac and 3 million Windows users most of whom probably don't know what docker is let alone run it; would like to disagree.

You are being weirdly antagonistic about this. Do you work for Docker? Random search result counts (not unique users btw) have nothing to do with a reproducible bug in Docker. Why are you so caught up on this? You are welcome to go to the issue queue in GitHub to read the steps to reproduce for yourself if you want.

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

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Post by jonwest »

user- wrote: post #110
LooerCell wrote: post #31

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. [0] https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

my personal experience. Much earlier this year at work, we migrated everyone to colima and I had to support devs with their issues. So many small issues kept popping up, and was definitely not a drop in replacement for us. The higher ups eventually let us just buy docker desktop and we are all happier now.

Exact same experience here to the point where I wasn’t sure if we worked together haha

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

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Post by antifa »

matai_kolila wrote: post #16
hbn wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure the main reason there's a push to move from Docker Desktop now is because earlier this year they started charging larger businesses/teams to use it. So if you're just using it for yourself you probably don't need to bother https://www.docker.com/blog/updating-product-subscriptions/

Oh I'm aware of that, my point is that it isn't the smooth transition folks seem to make it out to be (unless, of course, I'm a dum dum which is possible).

I tried it in debian/ubuntu and it didn't work at all, but I got the vibe the tool was maintained by non-debian using individuals.

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

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Post by parski »

alex3305 wrote: post #170
mfer wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I user Rancher Desktop on an i9 with 32gb of RAM. Starts in less than a minute. I also have Teams and slack. Sometimes I have over 200 browser tabs open (yes, I have a problem). The UI is responsive pretty quickly. A lot of delays has to do with starting VMs. You need this for Linux on Mac/Windows. Disclaimer: I started Rancher Desktop. I might be biased.

Last week I switched from Rancher Desktop back to Docker Desktop because I couldn't get VSCode Dev Containers to work properly. I was stumped because it should work out of the box. However it didn't work on a fresh install of Docker Desktop either. Apparently when Rancher Desktop was first released I've installed it and setup a Docker alias in my ~/.zshrc: alias docker=nerdctl After removing that alias everything wor…

Hi,

Sorry for using this comment as a way to get ahold of you but there is no DM function on HN and the comment I was wondering about was posted by you 18 days ago and the comments are locked now.

Here is the comment in question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33347058

I have been controlling my water heater with HA for a few months and I too am risk averse when it comes to legionella. You have taken it to another level by replacing the sensor inside with a DS18B20. I was also interested in doing this but I don't really want to drill into it. How did you install the sensor? Is the water not under pressure? I've just measured water temperature at the tap with a meat thermometer and under flow into a container to determine that the temperature falls in the range that is safe for legionella growth. Would love to look into a proper sensor again if you have any information about that.

Again, sorry for hijacking your completely unrelated comment.

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

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Post by spinachsalad »

bongobingo1 wrote: post #159
doublepg23 wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Running into edge issues and always trying to figure out if it was my container, Podman, or SELinux is making me very close to installing regular docker.

I want to love SELinux, sounds great, I can see the real value in it. Tried to deploy some containers on an SE system and it would block everything. Ok expected, it actually has great tools for discovering, suggesting and creating rules to poke holes where needed, but it only suggests those things post-facto. So basically you're left deploying a container and waiting for something to break, then inspecting SE logs an…

> Maybe I just missed an obvious route to disable swaths of SELinux for rootless containers - where it probably doesn't have as much of an application.

  podman run --security-opt label=disable
https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/troubleshooti...

  Note: Labeling can be disabled for all containers by setting label=false in the containers.conf(5) file.
https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-run.1.html#...

But more secure way would be to add ":z" or ":Z" to volume and podman will auto-relabel source dir. Finally you can use nuclear option: "--privileged". It's still more secure than docker's one because you are limited by your user's capabilities.

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

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Post by andrewaylett »

mfer wrote: post #26
blibble wrote: post #24

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> For personal use I found it great and lighter than Docker Desktop. I don't know what Docker Desktop is doing but on a top end i9 with 128gb of ram it still takes 60 seconds to start and the UI takes forever to do anything it makes Teams look responsive

I user Rancher Desktop on an i9 with 32gb of RAM. Starts in less than a minute. I also have Teams and slack. Sometimes I have over 200 browser tabs open (yes, I have a problem). The UI is responsive pretty quickly. A lot of delays has to do with starting VMs. You need this for Linux on Mac/Windows. Disclaimer: I started Rancher Desktop. I might be biased.

It seems like some folks' idea of "far too many" tabs is significantly lower than my idea of a "normal" number.

Currently at 220 in one window, 350 in another, and eight in a third.

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