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Docker or podman? (self.selfhosted)
submitted 9 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] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I like podman because rootless and daemonless are built-in and default. Yes, it can be done on docker, but you have to do a bunch of shit to get it set up.

You could create the alias alias docker="podman" and 99% of the time, you won't even be able to tell the difference since podman is a docker drop in replacement. All the docker documentation applies to podman as well. But since docker runs as root by default, some edge cases might not work out of the box (like binding to a port on the host less than 1000).

Podman comes with some neat tools like being able to create systemd service files to start and stop containers as services.

To use docker-compose, you'll need some additional packages. That's probably the biggest drawback to podman imo. Podman wants to use pods instead of docker-compose, but I think they gotta take their heads out of their asses and just support the more popular format on that one. Not to mention docker-compose is just plain better imo. Easier to define, easier to understand, easier to modify. The list goes on and on.

[–] vegetaaaaaaa 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You could create the alias alias docker="podman"

There's even an official Debian package that takes care of this for you: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/podman-docker

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That package actually does a bit more than that! If you don't need all the extras, then I say just add the alias and be done with it.