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  1. Podman Desktop

    Podman Desktop is the best free and open source tool to work with Containers and Kubernetes for developers. Get an intuitive and user-friendly interface to effortlessly build, manage, and deploy containers and Kubernetes — all from your desktop.

    Please share this experience and what went wrong with the postman team. It is the only way things can improve.

    You don’t have to solve the problem. Just state your problem. If you need inspiration, here is an example: https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/issues/868

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. kompose

    Convert Compose to Kubernetes

  4. pods

    Keep track of your podman containers

    If you're using Linux (especially with Gnome), I can highly recommend Pods[1] as a desktop client for Podman. It's much less cluttered than Podman Desktop, but still supports most of its features.

    [1] https://github.com/marhkb/pods#readme

  5. docker-install

    Docker installation script

    On WSL2, you just install Docker the same way as you would do on Linux. `sudo apt install docker.io` (from Debian/Ubuntu repo) or `curl https://get.docker.com | sh` (from Docker Inc). If you are using different WSL distribution, the standard way to install docker should work just fine. (e.g. `sudo pacman -S docker` works as expected on ArchWSL)

  6. colima

    Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

    After docker desktop became unusable, I jumped to colima and never looked back. I still use the docker runtime in it (the non-proprietary part) but it also supports containerd. On Mac it's just a "brew install colima" and then "colima start"

    I also install the compose and ecr credentials plug-ins (since I use ecr for my container registry.) It has the full functionality of docker desktop minus the UI, which I never used anyways.

    https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

  7. podman-compose

    a script to run docker-compose.yml using podman

    Can someone link me to what Compose means in this context? Google takes me to https://github.com/containers/podman-compose but I just wanna make sure that's what they are talking about.

  8. compose-spec

    The Compose specification

    https://github.com/compose-spec/compose-spec/blob/master/spe...

  9. SaaSHub

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  10. orbstack

    Fast, light, simple Docker containers & Linux machines

    For MacOS I can really recommend https://orbstack.dev

    It integrates very nicely, has very low CPU idle usage and also lets you quickly spawn VMs with bidirectional file sharing set up.

    Since I switched I haven't looked back.

  11. Docker Compose

    Define and run multi-container applications with Docker

  12. podman

    Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

    https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/20081

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