Docker Swarm VS podman

Docker - A containerization platform that allows developers to package applications and their dependencies into containers. Docker Compose can be used to define multi-container application stacks, including web servers, databases, and other services. Features powerful portability and consistency, supports rapid building, sharing, and container management, suitable for complex application architectures, and requires a learning curve.

This article wanted to be a brief and gentle introduction to the container and docker world, there is a lot more to learn so don’t hesitate to check the docker documentation.

It appears they have since reverted the decision but it used to require logging in:

https://github.com/docker/docs/issues/6910

Docker Documentation

Docker is a tool that can help the developer to run each dependency in containers. Find more about Docker at Docker Official.

According to Docker Docs, a Dockerfile is a text document that contains all the instructions a user could call on the command line to assemble an image. These instructions include actions like installing software, copying files, setting environment variables, and defining how an application should run.

Hello reader, it's Sourab here. Recently in one of my projects I used Docker and Nginx for deploying a React App to a front-end server. Let's see how I did it.

If you want to learn more about Docker, check out the official Docker docs.

Learn more about Docker with the documentation.

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.