Rootless docker vs podman: pros and cons?

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  • podman-nginx-socket-activation

    Demo of how to run socket-activated nginx with Podman

  • Nginx (Nginx does not have proper systemd socket activation support, but it's possible to use an internal socket-passing mechanism that Nginx uses) https://github.com/eriksjolund/podman-nginx-socket-activation

  • distribution-spec

    OCI Distribution Specification

  • For a server since OCI (https://opencontainers.org) there isn't a place/need for docker to be installed.

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  • socket-activate-httpd

    socket activated Apache httpd

  • Apache HTTP Server https://github.com/eriksjolund/socket-activate-httpd

  • pms-docker

    Plex Media Server Docker repo, for all your PMS docker needs.

  • The issue seems to be more that the container I'm trying to run is trying to chown a directory and runs into "Operation not permitted" issues. Specifically, this script is being executed and is failing, no matter which combination of user/namespace commands I am feeding it.

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