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Discussion summary

Podman 6.0.0 is used mainly for local development and isolated sandboxes, with some users integrating compose and WSL. Opinions vary on its platform limitations and compatibility with orchestration tools.

What the discussion says

  • Some users prefer Podman for local dev and sandbox environments.
  • Concerns about platform dependency and file ownership issues persist.
  • Compatibility with compose and orchestration tools is generally adequate.
“Podman is fine for regular dev work, but not for orchestration.”
— notnullorvoid
“Podman can run compose, either its own or docker-compose.”
— mattdw

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  • Quadlets and rootless containers are two major reasons I'll be switching from Docker to Podman.
    by jimmar
  • No idea why Docker is still so much more popular than Podman. Podman is obviously the better implementation.

    The new network stuff is a welcome improvement.

    by SwellJoe
  • Cool, been running my home server on podman + quadlets for about two years now and picked up a couple of things in the release notes

      podman quadlet list
    Added in v5.6.0, lists quadlets and their containers

      podman system migrate --migrate-db
    Flag added in v5.8.0. I remember seeing the bolt db deprecation warnings in the past but there was no tool to do the migration to sqlite, now there is (or just upgrade to podman 6.0.0 and it will do it automatically)
    by muti
  • Anyone have experience switching from Docker to Podman?

    I have a lot of compose files in my homelab/automation setup and those are what I’m most concerned about.

    by roger_
  • One thing I don't like about Podman is that it pretends to be docker-compatible while having some minor differences that will come to bite you. And users of your docker-based project who try to run it on Podman will come to you and complain.
    by PufPufPuf
  • As long as they refuse to support installing on Ubuntu (and other popular distros), without relying on the distro repos which are always out of date, they will continue to lose to Docker.

    Any serious project in this space supports as many distros as possible.

    It's OSS, so I'm not complaining per se, I have no right to. They owe me nothing.

    But this one issue has kept me from seriously considering Podman for years. They don't care about my use case and I therefore don't care to use their project.

    When getting the latest version looks like this[1], who is really going to consider this for serious production uses?

    1: https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/discussions...

    by rsyring
  • I really love Quadlet. I used to host my rootless containers on Hetzner, Ansible, SystemD and RockyLinux for years without any issues and extracted it to template repo [1].

    [1] https://github.com/Mati365/hetzner-podman-bunjs-deploy

    by mati365
  • After Docker Desktop randomly started consuming insane amounts of memory again we switched to Podman and it was literally as easy as installing it and pointing it at our docker-compose.yml.

    Zero changes needed and now I don’t need to keep a daemon running.

    Great software.

    by cdmckay

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