podman-compose VS for-mac

Compare podman-compose vs for-mac and see what are their differences.

for-mac

Bug reports for Docker Desktop for Mac (by docker)
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podman-compose for-mac
57 93
4,698 2,406
3.2% 0.7%
8.8 3.1
5 days ago 3 months ago
Python
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podman-compose

Posts with mentions or reviews of podman-compose. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-30.

for-mac

Posts with mentions or reviews of for-mac. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-30.
  • Caveat for Docker Dev Environment Rug Pull
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Aug 2023
  • Emacs 29.1 Released
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2023
    I use containers on Mac and Windows for development (and we deploy on linux). Docker for Mac is _unusably_ slow in my experience. The VM that it runs is a giant resource hog and a battery hog, and doesn't support ipv6 [0] Docker Desktop itself is (another) resource hog, wildly buggy, and painfully slow. It's the epitome of "shitty electron app".

    On windows, docker desktop has all of the same issues as it does on mac. Docker's concept of volumes and file permissions on windows are nonsense. Windows updates and Docker Desktop regularly decide to disagree, [1] It's networking support interferes with other applications (like OpenVPN and the Xbox Game Center) [2].

    [0] https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/1432

    [1] https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/599

    [2] https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/1976

  • Error deploying subgraph on local
    2 projects | /r/thegraph | 11 Jul 2023
    version: '3' services: graph-node: image: graphprotocol/graph-node ports: - '8000:8000' - '8001:8001' - '8020:8020' - '8030:8030' - '8040:8040' depends_on: - ipfs - postgres extra_hosts: - host.docker.internal:host-gateway environment: postgres_host: postgres postgres_user: graph-node postgres_pass: let-me-in postgres_db: graph-node ipfs: 'ipfs:5001' matic: 'matic:http://localhost:8545/' GRAPH_LOG: info ipfs: image: ipfs/go-ipfs:v0.10.0 ports: - '5001:5001' volumes: - ./data/ipfs:/data/ipfs postgres: image: postgres ports: - '5432:5432' command: [ "postgres", "-cshared_preload_libraries=pg_stat_statements" ] environment: POSTGRES_USER: graph-node POSTGRES_PASSWORD: let-me-in POSTGRES_DB: graph-node # FIXME: remove this env. var. which we shouldn't need. Introduced by # , maybe as a # workaround for https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/6270? PGDATA: "/var/lib/postgresql/data" POSTGRES_INITDB_ARGS: "-E UTF8 --locale=C" volumes: - ./data/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data
  • ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED on localhost
    1 project | /r/docker | 6 Jul 2023
    This bug has been around years and still not fixed as far as I know - see https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3926
  • Stuck at "Starting the Docker Engine..." on macOS
    1 project | /r/docker | 23 Jun 2023
    You're not wrong, and not the first to raise this https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/6061
  • Docker Desktop is dead on Mac M1
    2 projects | /r/docker | 5 Jun 2023
    https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/6867 This github issue might help. What worked for me was deleting the ~/.docker/buildx folder
  • PiHole + docker DHCP
    1 project | /r/docker | 29 May 2023
    There has been an outstanding bug [Docker Github] for years with the Docker team who do not seem to be able (or want to) address this - they have closed more than one issue but its still there.. The latest bug report is this one [Docker Github] but I honestly would not bother following it - no idea why they are not fixing this.
  • Mysterious Server Crashes
    1 project | /r/jellyfin | 22 May 2023
    Have you checked if any of your other Docker containers become unresponsive at the same time? If so, it could be Docker. I had this issue on Docker for months until they finally came out with an update that works for me (Docker Desktop 4.19.0 for Mac).
  • Very slow (local) direct playing with no apparent setup changes all of a sudden
    1 project | /r/jellyfin | 22 May 2023
    It might have something to do with Docker? I was having issues a few months ago with all my containers becoming unreachable or very slow many times per day. I finally upgraded to Docker Desktop 4.19.0 (I’m on a Mac) and everything resolved. There were a few GitHub issues about it, too. You could try running a speedtest within different Docker containers and seeing if there’s a discrepancy. You could also check your RAM and CPU usage for different containers using something like Glances; it could lead to a clue.
  • noob cannot connect to Docker Adguardhome
    1 project | /r/docker | 19 Apr 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing podman-compose and for-mac you can also consider the following projects:

Portainer - Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS

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

gvisor - Application Kernel for Containers

traefik - The Cloud Native Application Proxy

podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

cockpit-podman - Cockpit UI for podman containers

runtime - Kata Containers version 1.x runtime (for version 2.x see https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers).

containerd - An open and reliable container runtime

projector-installer - Install, configure and run JetBrains IDEs with Projector Server on Linux or in WSL

multipass - Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances

valet - A more enjoyable local development experience for Mac.