Fly To Podman: a script that will help you to migrate from Docker

Post by exceptione » Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 10:02 PM UTC

wink wrote: post #63

exceptione wrote: post #43

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Honest question: wouldn't that make you more nervous you now arrived at an unknown/unsupported configuration? Boring stability is the goal, but if Debian does not fit as is, then why not find a total package that is somewhat more cutting edge but does fit together? Especially given the fact that Debian does customization to upstream, so esoteric times esoteric.

It doesn't make me nervous because Debian has only let me down a couple of times over nearly 20 years and for example Ubuntu und RHEL and SLES have let me down dozens of times each. Also I don't usually run "supported". I just run a system that fits my needs.

Post by LEARAX » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 12:41 AM UTC

lbhdc wrote: post #26

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…

Post by krferriter » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 1:16 AM UTC

koakuma-chan wrote: post #84

toprerules wrote: post #68

Just want to say everyone should be using podman. Its architecture is way more sane and integrates with Linux on a far more basic level (a regular process that can be started via systemd, etc. instead of a root daemon. Run it as root to get privileged containers). They've also built an incredible ecosystem around podman itself. Red Hat has been absolutely cooking with containers recently.

What are the benefits of using Podman and not Docker?

Post by throwaway81523 » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 2:47 AM UTC

koakuma-chan wrote: post #86

krferriter wrote: post #85

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Licensing. No root daemon.

Docker Engine is Apache 2.0, is this not a good license? Docker has a rootless mode too.

Post by kalaksi » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 7:52 AM UTC

Cyph0n wrote: post #80

kalaksi wrote: post #77

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I actually am, but want to keep configs more distro agnostic.

Your Docker Compose file remains the source of truth, so there is no “lock-in”. That’s the beauty of config generation :)