I'm glad they have podman desktop. Personally though, once I realized that I can use the command line version without it (unlike docker in my experience) I uninstalled it as I don't really need the UI / KIND, etc. For me the command line is fine and having something where I don't have to first shell into wsl is great (it just runs it itself behind the scenes). Of course, Linux is generally better for development imo but this is a nice compromise on Windows.
my interaction with docker is limited to a make file that has a `docker-compose up` command, would podman work if the rest of my team is still on docker ?
I use it over docker because it has a better license, more easily installed with system package managers (installing docker is a pain, IIRC), is rootless by default, and has a pretty transparent remote API that I can use over SSH to control containers on other machines.
After hearing about it for years I finally said ok sure I’ll try it. Swapped it out. CPU went to 100%. kill -9. Maybe next year. I don’t have time unfortunately to unravel stuff like this, it has to just work.
Congrats to the small but mighty team behind Podman Desktop. This is an example of Red Hat planting a tiny seed that grows into something great.
( They have a pretty good ratio of seeds that grows into vs seeds that don’t. They also make minimal investment until the project is viable. This does not seem to be a common approach. )
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[ 5.9 ms ] story [ 28.6 ms ] threadThe only use case I encountered is people who want to run Docker without root or admin permissions and use Podman just as a drop-in replacement.
Likewise, I am contributing to Rancher Desktop downloads with such kind of customers.
( They have a pretty good ratio of seeds that grows into vs seeds that don’t. They also make minimal investment until the project is viable. This does not seem to be a common approach. )
Congrats to podman team.