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Docker or podman? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 8 months ago by noodles to c/selfhosted

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I would love to hear everyone's opinion.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If docker works for you, then don’t change what’s not broken. If there are things you don’t like about docker (root access etc for example) then venture out and try others. At the end of the day, they’re just tools to get to the more interesting stuff — actually running applications and playing with them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just pointing out your response may be dated. Docker can run rootless: https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/rootless/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Cool. Thanks! One less reason for me to even consider Porman on the radar. Personally, I really don’t care for the tool itself, and am way more interested in the apps that I can run and play with :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Agreed. Honesly I use docker like snap these days. Need a specific version of node?

alias node="docker run --rm -ti -v '${PWD}:${PWD}' -w '${PWD}' node:16-alpine"

alias npm="docker run --rm -ti -v '${PWD}:${PWD}' -w '${PWD}' node:16-alpine npm"

Pretty much every CLI tool that isn't super basic to install I do this with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wow, that's really clever. And dead simple at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yea, I contribute to a bunch of own source projects, so it makes it easy to jump around without conflicts. Also great for random stuff like youtube-dl, or esphome, etc, that you use once in a while. Just slap the aliases in my bashrc.