Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (Apple Silicon) machines
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Re: Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (Apple Silicon) machines
#2This looks like the podman client, effectively? Has anyone gotten `podman machine` working on M1?
Re: Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (Apple Silicon) machines
#3Linking to the homebrew installer for this is an...odd... Choice. Never the less, congrats podman devs!
Re: Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (Apple Silicon) machines
#4It looks like the real nice thing here is having a formula for QEMU with the ARM patch applied: https://github.com/simnalamburt/qemu/tree/hvf
With this I believe you could also used [nerd](https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl) instead of podman but I haven't tested it yet.
Edit: It works. Had a bit of trouble since I wanted to uninstall the "real" QEMU first, but `lima` still depended on it, and then installing the patched QEMU needed to update the version of `lima` I had installed, which then tried to reinstall QEMU, which failed because of some symlinks which were now owned by the patched QEMU...
Re: Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (Apple Silicon) machines
#5Anyone tried this? How's the performance compared to Docker Machine in Mac (notoriously slow on storage).
Re: Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (Apple Silicon) machines
#6Tangentially, I wonder if Moby underestimated the amount of human hours that were instantly allocated to alternatives as soon as they announced Docker Desktop was going paid. (I don't know if this project is a consequence of that announcement or not.)
Hopefully Podman will be able to capitalize on this event and get the polish needed for widespread use.
Re: Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (Apple Silicon) machines
#7This looks like the podman client, effectively? Has anyone gotten `podman machine` working on M1?
`podman machine` uses Fedora CoreOS, which doesn’t currently support aarch64. However, it [sounds like][1] that could change soon.
[1]: https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/13
Re: Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (Apple Silicon) machines
#8Idk why people keep pushing for this, on a personal dev machine, root is not a problem, and then there is QEMU
Re: Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (Apple Silicon) machines
#9Idk why people keep pushing for this, on a personal dev machine, root is not a problem, and then there is QEMU
I think you'd be surprised how often the route from dev to prod is "copy it from my machine into the cloud".
Good practices start at home.
Re: Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (Apple Silicon) machines
#10Tangentially, I wonder if Moby underestimated the amount of human hours that were instantly allocated to alternatives as soon as they announced Docker Desktop was going paid. (I don't know if this project is a consequence of that announcement or not.) Hopefully Podman will be able to capitalize on this event and get the polish needed for widespread use.
I suspect the push for podman was more about how docker ignored CGroupsV2 for so long that Fedora eventually turned it on anyway which broke docker and then told users to switch to podman.