bypass4netns VS podman

Compare bypass4netns vs podman and see what are their differences.

bypass4netns

[Experimental] Accelerates slirp4netns using SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ADDFD. As fast as `--net=host`. (by rootless-containers)

podman

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods. (by containers)
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bypass4netns

Posts with mentions or reviews of bypass4netns. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-31.
  • How to run an Nginx container with socket activation and rootless Podman? (I only got it working with a simplified Nginx container image)
    4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 31 Aug 2022
    Socket activation should be the fastest alternative as then there is no need to process and interpret the network traffic that is sent over the socket. Both slirp4netns and netavark process the traffic. If I understand correctly the network driver bypass4netns could have similar performance as socket activation. The current bypass4netns implementation has some security problems but it seems that could be fixed.
  • Podman 4.2.0
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Aug 2022
    (That could a be cool feature)

    Also interesting would be to fix the security considerations of using bypass4netns:

    "However, it is probably possible to connect to host loopback IPs by exploiting TOCTOU of struct sockaddr * pointers."

    There seems to be an implementation idea for how the problem could be fixed:

    https://github.com/rootless-containers/bypass4netns/issues/2...

  • Minikube now supports rootless podman driver for running Kubernetes
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jun 2022
    The filesystem performance degradation was resolved in kernel 5.11 which added support for rootless overlayfs.

    The network performance is caused by slirp (usermode TCP/IP) but it is being resolved too : https://github.com/rootless-containers/bypass4netns

podman

Posts with mentions or reviews of podman. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-26.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bypass4netns and podman you can also consider the following projects:

podman-nginx-socket-activation - Demo of how to run socket-activated nginx with Podman

Portainer - Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

docker-nginx - Official NGINX Dockerfiles

lima - Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

podman-deb - This has been archived because I had a fundamental misunderstanding of the unstable repos provided @lsm5.

kaniko - Build Container Images In Kubernetes

Fedora-Remix-for-WSL - Fedora Remix for Windows Subsystem for Linux.

rancher - Complete container management platform

buildah - A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

containerd - An open and reliable container runtime

FedoraWSL - Fedora as a WSL Instance. Supports multiple install.

nerdctl - contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...