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It’s pretty great, and I like that the workflow for creating containers is sliiiightly easier than on Docker. I switched from Docker to Podman for most stuff about a year ago and so far there are only two hiccups that I lament:
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the higher disk consumption due to not being able to share image storage. (I’ve tried with
additionalstoragesbut that seems to only be respected for podman run; podman build and podman compose seem to ignore it and always pull images from the registries) -
Some annoying isses with fule permissions due to rootless design - running rootless containers will create files under your user storage that you as a user have no permission to transfer or remove for cleanup or security, and severely breaks the output of tools like
duorfinddue to error spammage.
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Always great to see more Podman, especially rootless!
Isn’t Podman rootless by default, unlike docker?
I’ve heard of podman quite a bit but never tried it.
Is it truly free and open source?
Does it run only in Linux?
Is it truly free and open source?
Yes, both
podmanandpodman-desktopare FOSS under Apache-2.0 license. And they prefer more open image hosts like quay.io by default (dockerhub is still available OOTB for it to be a drop-in replacement of docker)Does it run only in Linux?
No, it runs on Linux, Windows and MacOS (through VMs on the latter two) and my experience is that it works better than docker on non-Linux machines.
I think that is a question about trust and time. As long as Redhat does not change their policy, YES. For an open source project is it very important if the community is big enough to defense big tech desire for money. In my opinion, Red Hat hat a very good business model to balance and in long time Podman will be free
