If you are on macOS, give OrbStack a shot. It works surprisingly well and fast.
I'll give it a shot - how useful are the Pro features?
Podman Desktop 1.11: Light mode, Kubernetes features, macOS improvements
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Re: Podman Desktop 1.11: Light mode, Kubernetes features, macOS improvements
#22Podman Destop is surprisingly bad on MacOS. It has a kind of proxy-like/userspace network driver. That means your tcp connection shown in a host system through `netstat`. ICPM is not implemented and always returns success. Try running `ping 66.0.0.0` or any other non-existing IP from the container and see. At that moment I'll continue using, well, podman in a Linux VM running UTM.
If you haven’t tried it yet, I can recommend OrbStack[1] for container things on macOS. I don’t use it for anything more than spinning up dev DBs locally, but I know it supports Kubernetes in some form or another. [1] https://orbstack.dev
https://docs.orbstack.dev/faq#open-source
Into the trash it goes.
Re: Podman Desktop 1.11: Light mode, Kubernetes features, macOS improvements
#23For basic dev container stuff, I switched to podman and I'll not go back to Docker. It works great and it being daemonless is just a cherry on top.
Same. I have both limactl and podman setup but I think I’ll go all in on podman. On the Mac I was impressed how awesome podman is. Docker could have had this position but they need to make money and changed the license. More power to them. But the consequences are that I’ve moved.
Re: Podman Desktop 1.11: Light mode, Kubernetes features, macOS improvements
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I liked Multipass until I ran into storage corruption issues like many others [1][2] and broke all my VMs. On MacOS, Multipass uses qemu in which the apple-hvf support isn't getting much updates after 2021 [3]. [1]: https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/3455 [2]: https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/3235 [3]: https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commits/master/accel/hvf
Thanks for the heads up.
Re: quemu and apple hvf that’s really sad news.
Re: Podman Desktop 1.11: Light mode, Kubernetes features, macOS improvements
#25For basic dev container stuff, I switched to podman and I'll not go back to Docker. It works great and it being daemonless is just a cherry on top.
I want to love it, but it's surprisingly difficult to set up a recent version on Debian / Ubuntu. As far as I can tell, even the latest stable Debian / Ubuntu have Podman 3.x in their apt package repositories, which is missing a bunch of features (latest is 5.x).
Re: Podman Desktop 1.11: Light mode, Kubernetes features, macOS improvements
#26I'm remarkably impressed with Podman Desktop. I rarely use GUI tools as they rarely offer me more than what a CLI can, but Podman Desktop is becoming a sort of system dashboard or cockpit for me. It's getting quite feature rich. The k8s support is unexpected but appreciated, though I do wish it had better support for multiple kube config files. On the CLI I use aliases (sometimes env vars) to specify the kube config file, but in Podman desktop for some reason it won't use the env vars that it's supposed to. I built it such that there is no default cluster. It requires explicit specifying of the cluster. I did this intentionally so that commands never accidentally run against prod. With Podman Desktop, I can hack around the bug by symlinking ~/.kube/config to the one I want, but then my explicit specifying is gone and it's possible to accidentally be connected to prod when I think it's staging. My biggest feature request for Podman Desktop: support for multiple kube configs and let me label them with environment so it's immediately clear which env I'm talking to.
Re: Podman Desktop 1.11: Light mode, Kubernetes features, macOS improvements
#27Initial experience on random (fresh-ish install) Windows laptop: Bad. Creates VM, and then can't find it. Now I can install Hyper-V management tools to get rid of it...
Error: Command execution failed with exit code 125 Command execution failed with exit code 125 Error: vm "podman-machine-default" already exists on hypervisor
Re: Podman Desktop 1.11: Light mode, Kubernetes features, macOS improvements
#28Anyone know if there’s a way to get access to devices in a container on MacOS yet? (Eg USB webcam, MPS or CUDA accelerator)
Re: Podman Desktop 1.11: Light mode, Kubernetes features, macOS improvements
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you haven’t tried it yet, I can recommend OrbStack[1] for container things on macOS. I don’t use it for anything more than spinning up dev DBs locally, but I know it supports Kubernetes in some form or another. [1] https://orbstack.dev
https://docs.orbstack.dev/faq#open-source Into the trash it goes.
Along with the OS it runs on? Or is it just App developers that you don't allow to make money?
Re: Podman Desktop 1.11: Light mode, Kubernetes features, macOS improvements
#30Used to be that people would wait ages for applications to get a "Dark mode", I find it funny how now we have to wait for "light mode" instead. Even so, good to see that arriving. I've been experimenting recently and I've found podman very useful compared to my previous experiences trying to do containery stuff. ( Admittedly a very long time ago now which burned me and put me off trying again for a long time. )
Pretty much every program I interact with on Linux simply respects the system theme. I don't understand why light or dark "mode" for individual programs is even a thing.