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Dockerless, part 3: Moving development environment to containers with Podman

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Re: Dockerless, part 3: Moving development environment to containers with Podman

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> Docker is more and more becoming an API that sits on top of a bunch of other services. Which is a good thing. With Cloud Foundry we moved from using a pre-Docker container engine to using runc as soon as it was available; containerd is the next move. > Even so, "docker requires too many privileges" is marketing speak. I don't agree. The API surface still exists and includes too many disparate purposes. The modulari…

Modularization improves maintenance overhead, it does not reduce privilege.

I understand that. My point is that it reduces the blast radius of any one part being compromised.

Re: Dockerless, part 3: Moving development environment to containers with Podman

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Sort of but it uses the Docker daemon in the Minikube VM currently, but Minikube currently supports a --vm-driver=none option to deploy Minikube Kubernetes without using a VM (which is currently not recommended due to security issues of sharing the Docker daemon). However, deploying Kubernetes in a container (or containers) would greatly speed up the deployment and make it a lot easier to manage than a VM. Since Podm…

I'm down to work on this. Do you want to team up and give it a shot?

Very kind of you to ask, but unfortunately I don't have time to work on this right now. Here are some resources to help get started though and maybe a community that can help:

https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/blob/master/docs/vmdr...

https://rootlesscontaine.rs/

https://github.com/rootless-containers

https://github.com/containers/libpod/blob/master/rootless.md

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