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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?
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…
I stayed away from docker all these years and tried podman from scratch last year after docker failed to work for a project I was experimenting with.
Took an hour to read various articles and get things working.
One thing I liked was it does not need sudo privileges or screw with the networking.
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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.)
I've not experienced something on this scale for many years, "Debian stable packages are so outdated" is mostly a meme. Debian 12 was 1y old when I did this and very often you can relatively easily find a backport or build one - but I think in this case it was either glibc or kernel, that's why "just run upstream" didn't work.
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…
I only ever found one thing that didn't work with it at all - I think it was Gitlab's test docker images because they set up some VMs with Vagrant or something. Pretty niche anyway.
For the most part this worked without issue. The only snag I ran into was my CI provider can't use oci formatted images. Podman lets you select the format of image to build, so I was able to work around this using the `--format=docker` flag.
Last year I transitioned all of my personal projects to use podman. The biggest surface area was converting CI to use podman to build my docker files, but also changed out tooling to use it (like having kind use it instead of docker). For the most part this worked without issue. The only snag I ran into was my CI provider can't use oci formatted images. Podman lets you select the format of image to build, so I was ab…
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 an extra step, but not a painful one -- the default podman machine configuration seems to work pretty well out of the box for most things.
Honestly, for my use-case (running Subabase stack locally), it was seamless enough to switch that I'm a little surprised a bash script like this is necessary. On my Mac, I think it was simply `brew install podman` followed by `podman machine start` and then I got back to work as if I were still using docker.
By far the most tedious part of the switch was fully uninstalling Docker, and all its various startup programs & background processes.
This is a cool tool for the decrepit hand-configured server with no documentation that has been running since 2017 untouched and needs an update... but I would encourage you to not fall into this trap to begin with.
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…
In the spirit of the OP, I also run podman rootless on a home server running the usual home lab suspects with great success. I've taken to using the 'kube play' command to deploy the apps from kubernetes yaml and been pleased with the results.