cocalc-docker VS podman

I recently discovered Sagemath CoCalc.

You can download and use cocalc for free via a docker image: https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc-docker

I am the CEO of CoCalc, which is an alternatives to Overleaf that they don't own. I don't know whether or not our rules about personal data collection are compatible with your university requirements. Our default rules are at https://cocalc.com/policies, but we have been able to make modifications to them for particular customers. We also have a small easy to install on premises version here https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc-docker, and sell a more complicated Kubernetes-based on prem version of our software, so you control all data. Please feel free to email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) with more detailed questions. In particular, it could be that we've already worked with your university to use CoCalc for collaborative Jupyter notebooks for teaching (that's the main thing CoCalc is used for, not latex), and that's something we can discuss in our support channels.

Mail - probably with mailu; and a multimedia server, but I haven't decided yet which one zenphoto? piwigo? lychee? or others?). Maybe seafile, although I probably don't need it given my use now of Syncthing and a backup strategy. And maybe... CoCalc (https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc-docker) as it'd be great to be able to run this from any machine, rather than having to manage software for different platforms.

A lot of well-known Docker alternatives emerged at this point, the most commonly recommended of which must be Podman (along with Podman Desktop). This is what I use on my Windows machines, and this was the first solution that I tried on the Macbook as well.

Example of why: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/5102#issuecommen...

Podman

Even though we will focus on Docker for this article, I wanted to mention that there are more container creation and management tools such as Podman, Rkt, and so on.

By using containerization, the application will always have the same configuration that is used in the development environment and production environment. There is no more "It works on my machine". Some examples of containerization technologies are Docker and Podman.

Podman Documentation. Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System.

AFAIK podman either already supports pods in quadlet container files, or will in the near future. https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/20762

Podman as a devcontainers engine doesn't currently work if you use devcontainer features [1] or (and this sounds like you're issue) if you use WSL2.

I haven't submitted the WSL2 issue to the Podman team yet. If you get to it before I do, can you like it here?

https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/18691#issuecomme...

You can also use their Oracle Linux Docker images with the database preinstalled using either Podman or Docker. Just make absolutely sure you are downloading something you are licensed to use, because it seems really easy to accidentally infringe copyright via this method.