The new network stuff is a welcome improvement.
I've never interacted with anyone that knew them by another name. It's always (docker) container, where they may leave out the docker term, but if questioed what kind of container they mean theyll say it.
And the times I've called them OCI container (or image when talking about those) nobody knew what I meant until I clarified to docker
I have a lot of compose files in my homelab/automation setup and those are what I’m most concerned about.
I have the feeling the docker company is communicating a lot with Apple because virtualisation got better and better over the years. I wonder if podman would be a speed downgrade here?
I have zero issues with it doing the builds I need. Works same same as Docker from what I can tell.
I took Docker completely off my Macbook which has a tiny drive in it. Hardly ever use it, except for testing. Podman is super lightweight and using a project I'm developing, launches containers with dev agents in it, just the same as Windows running Docker.
Absolutely zero regrets, would never go back.
Regardless it works enough for me to run local Kubernetes and Tilt
Highly recommend Podman overall; there are some quirky edge cases, but for the most part it’s a smooth replacement for Docker.
If you don’t want to give up compose entirely, podman-compose exists. I just prefer Quadlets so I haven’t used it much myself.
I'm also using podman-compose that is small and delightful (I had to fix a few bugs there). It's just one Python file that you can copy.
The few cases where something was not directly translatable was <10 minutes with a coding agent to make some minor config changes, and then it just worked.
The only issue I have is validation, there isn't a convenient built-in command to validate quadlet files and systemd doesn't warn you if any fail to generate. You either have to do a --dry-run first (and probably alias the full command to something reasonable) or check the journal for errors.
Other than that, I haven't found anything that makes me consider using docker again.
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