podman
Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods. (by containers)
kaniko
Build Container Images In Kubernetes (by GoogleContainerTools)
| podman | kaniko | |
|---|---|---|
| 401 | 55 | |
| 26,739 | 15,502 | |
| 2.6% | 0.9% | |
| 10.0 | 7.0 | |
| 6 days ago | 11 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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 2025-05-07.
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Create a simple REST application using Quarkus
Install Podman. Find the latest Podman release on the GitHub Release page, and download the binary for your system architecture. At the time of writing, the latest release was v5.4.1. Install either the unversal pkg installer or the arm or amd version.
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Replacing Kubernetes with Systemd
Neat. I like to see other takes on this. Any reason to use rootless vs `userns=auto`? I haven't really seen any discussion of it other than this issue: https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/13728
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Docker Management Is Evolving These 8 Tools Made My Life Easier
5. Podman — The Rootless Docker Alternative
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Kubernetes Without Docker: Why Container Runtimes Are Changing the Game in 2025
Podman (aka: “We have Docker at home”) Docker CLI compatibility. Rootless. No daemon. No drama.
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🥳 We built the cli of our dreams to send sms ❣️
Since a few years now, we started to design various cli for internal batch usage, on our Java Stack on top of picocli and quarkus, delivered as images, and run on podman.
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Podman Quadlets with Podman Desktop
Podman quadlet supports "Socket activation of containers" https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorial...
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Podman on debian How to fix podman no services after restart
This file was originally from github repo, but with static podman build it is not present.
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How to Build Scalable Document Signing by Integrating BoldSign with .NET Aspire
Docker or Podman for container runtime
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Quadlet: Running Podman containers under systemd
I've been looking for a better solution for local dev on services deployed via quadlet, could you elaborate on this?
I just took a look at the socket activation docs[0]. Is my understanding correct that no `compose.yaml` is required, just running `docker-compose up` with the appropriate env var pointing to the socket is enough to trigger a connection and service activation?
[0] https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorial...
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How to be Test Driven with Spark: Chapter 5: Leverage spark in a container
If you are unfamiliar with the concept of containers and docker images, I suggest you have a look at docker. It will be leveraged here to start the Spark server for the tests; it's important to mention there are other opensource alternatives like podman or nerdctl to allow containerization.
kaniko
Posts with mentions or reviews of kaniko.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-23.
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Kubernetes Without Docker: Why Container Runtimes Are Changing the Game in 2025
Kaniko Build Images in Kubernetes Without Docker For secure image builds inside CI/CD pipelines.
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Deno Under TinyKVM in Varnish
AFAIU this is because it manually detects changes in a given image layer by walking the directory tree. See also https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/issues/875
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Dockerfmt: A Dockerfile Formatter
kaniko <https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko>, ko <https://github.com/ko-build/ko>, bazel <https://github.com/bazel-contrib/rules_oci>, apko <https://github.com/chainguard-dev/apko>, or other tools.
Each of those has tradeoffs compared to Dockerfiles (I have no need for bazel, but if I did, then adding `rules_oci` might be a win-win, rather than using a Dockerfile). If I used Nix, then the Nix dockerTools would be a huge win (I don't use Nix). If I were shipping Go programs, `ko` would likely be a good baseline.
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A Safer Container Runtime
Kaniko is a tool from Google that builds container images from a Dockerfile inside a container or Kubernetes cluster without requiring privileged mode:
- State of Kaniko: Unmaintained?
- Kaniko Project Goes Unmaintained
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Using AKS for hosting ADO agent and using it to build and test as containers
If all you need to do is build container, you can use https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko
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Building Cages - Creating better DX for deploying Dockerfiles to AWS Nitro Enclaves
Kaniko for building the container images
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Container and image vocabulary
kaniko
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EKs 1.24 Docker issue
You should maybe look into Kaniko or use some other build tool
What are some alternatives?
When comparing podman and kaniko you can also consider the following projects:
containerd - An open and reliable container runtime
buildah - A tool that facilitates building OCI images.
Portainer - Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.
skopeo - Work with remote images registries - retrieving information, images, signing content
colima - Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
buildkit - concurrent, cache-efficient, and Dockerfile-agnostic builder toolkit