I've moved all my docker containers to rootless podman. Took me a bit since I also moved to using quadlets but everything ended up working. Quite happy with the change. The only downside is the lack of GUI to manage quadlets other than podman desktop.

I'd always get errors with the /tmp folder when running rootless, I hope its better now.

LOVE podman

Always great to see more Podman, especially rootless!

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:

• the higher disk consumption due to not being able to share image storage. (I've tried with additionalstorages but 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 du or find due to error spammage.

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?

Great overview

It would be nice if you used Lemmy's builtin "crosspost" feature: that way you can share across communities to reach everyone, but (some) client software we use won't show it to us 7 times, because it knows it's the same post.

Now I get this:

Oh great, just what i needed. Looking for LXC anyway.

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/quadlet-podman

it's good to know that the author is a blockain expert.