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Posted by codesmash 9/5/2025

I ditched Docker for Podman(codesmash.dev)
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mehdibl 9/5/2025|
if you mount local path's, it's a pain.

I know a lot of kubernetes fans migrate to podman, but if you use dev stacks.

Use in dev: devcontainer, podman can't replace docker!

s_ting765 9/5/2025||
You are going to have to pry Docker from my cold dead hands.

Podman is a failed reverse-engineering of cherry-picked so-called "good" parts of Docker.

vaylian 9/5/2025|
What part of podman is not working for you?
s_ting765 9/5/2025||
Many things but summarily it would be the promise of a 1:1 drop-in replacement for Docker.
brokegrammer 9/6/2025||
I had the opposite experience with Podman and decided to stick with Docker because I prefer the "daemon-full" architecture and ease of installation.

I even wrote wrote an article about that: https://joshkaramuth.com/blog/docker-vs-podman/

disqard 9/5/2025||
Does anyone here have more than "initial impressions" of systemd-nspawn? It seems chronically overlooked in these sorts of threads.
rldjbpin 9/6/2025||
my team switched to podman due to docker desktop licensing (and only using engine pain). personally it has been quite annoying to work with on windows with cuda.

the need to spin its own wsl instance (which takes a lot of disk space) and gpu workarounds are just not there yet.

others have mentioned about podman compose but the old docker-compose do work to be fair.

betaby 9/5/2025||
Can `podman` use `macvlan` network if run as non-root? I'm talking about that scenario https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59515026/how-do-i-replic... but for non-root containers.
polskibus 9/6/2025||
What do you guys use to profile whole ci/cd pipelines that involve building software , building (many) containers, running tests, running e2e tests etc. Ci/cd can be a huge drag on the lead time of delivery teams, containerisation helped with one thing but prolonged another. Is there a way out of this performance drag?
polskibus 9/6/2025|
By drag I mean 3-4 hrs until all e2e passed on an ephemeral k8s stack on a vm.
Eji1700 9/5/2025||
As bad as the horror stories about switching might be, I don't see how docker can remain as is. The level of vulnerability it causes seems like a fundamental flaw. I assume docker itself hasn't changed because it took off so fast and now it'd be breaking changes galore, but eventually everyone is going to have to pull the trigger.
gtirloni 9/5/2025||
Same here. Podman Desktop is great. podman/buildah and the whole ecosystem is much more reliable on the server as well.
todotask2 9/5/2025|
As much as I’d like to switch to Podman, I’m using Vite inside a container and need to monitor file changes on the host folder. It doesn’t detect them, and polling isn’t ideal. Does anyone have tips I might not know about yet?

But Apple Container is another option with direct IP network support on macOS Tahoe, not possible with macOS Sequoia.

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