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Naya Kumar

08/23/2022, 6:19 AM
Anyone here uses Podman? I read this article about Podman vs Docker and I found it interesting that Podman is daemonless. Want to hear opinions from someone who’s using Podman in their companies.
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Maciej Raszplewicz

08/23/2022, 7:07 AM
I've been using Podman some time ago. There were some incompatibilities with Docker, nothing big as far as I remember. It was also a little bit slower. And yes it is daemonless. I was more interested in the rootless mode but it wasn't fully functional when I was using it. You can read more about limitations here: https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/rootless.md
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Clemens Jütte

08/23/2022, 7:46 AM
I would throw another contestant into the mix. Since Docker turned commercial I am on https://github.com/abiosoft/colima and that's been a nice experience so far. I tried Podman as well and ran into issues with old docker-composes all over the place, which did put me off.
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Naya Kumar

08/23/2022, 8:14 AM
I haven't heard about colima before. Can you share your experience with it?
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Maciej Raszplewicz

08/23/2022, 9:41 AM
Isn't colima just a very easy to use VM with the docker daemon installed?
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Prune

08/23/2022, 12:25 PM
plus one for Colima !
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keen

08/23/2022, 8:05 PM
looks like a docker-machine type alternative
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Clemens Jütte

08/24/2022, 8:13 AM
I cannot tell you much about the experience - it just works 🙂
One caveat I found was, that if you upgrade via homebrew (and they come around from time to time), you sometimes need to delete and re-create your instance, because the old one will not start correctly with the new version. The rest was pretty much flawless for me. Performance is way better than Docker Desktop.
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Shane Dowling

08/24/2022, 8:18 AM
Yup plus one for Colima, it’s been a great drop in replacement for Docker.
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Saïd

08/24/2022, 3:36 PM
I’ve used Lima to much success on macOS. Lima is in fact what Colima is based on.