Podman Alternatives

podman reviews and mentions

• I Chose Common Lisp
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2025

  And there's no REPL for the editor--so I can't actually find out details, let alone fix anything.

  I had thought emacs DX was bad--but I've revised my opinion now: compared to vscode DX, emacs DX is great. You live with VSCode if you want to.

  And note, vscode was made after emacs was made. There's no excuse for this.

  I think this now was about all the time that I want to waste on this thing, again.

  How is this a problem in 2025? shakes head

  >VS Code managed to by-pass the qualitiy and amount of extensions/plugins in a fraction of time Emacs took decades.

  Yeah? Seems to me these vscode extensions are written in crayon. Bad quality like that would never make it into emacs mainline. And it's not even strictly about that! I wonder who would write a developer tool that the developer can't easily debug its own extensions in. That flies about as well as a lead balloon.

  For comparison, there's emacs bufferenv that does dev containerization like this and it works just fine. Configuration: 1 line--the names of the containerfiles one wants it to pick up. Also, if I wanted to debug what it did (which is rare) I could just evaluate any expression whatsoever in emacs. ("Alt-ESC : «expression»" anywhere)

  PS. manually running "podman-compose up" in an example project as a regular user works just fine--starts up the project and everything needed. So what are they overcomplicating here? Pipes too hard?

  PPS. I've read some blog article to make socket activation work for rootless podman[1] but it's not really talking about vscode. Instead, it talks how one would set up "linger" so that the container stays there when I'm logged out. So that's not for dev containers (why would I possibly want that there? I'm not ensuring Heisenbugs myself :P).

  [1] https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorial...

• Ask HN: What are the biggest PITAs about managing VMs and containers?
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jan 2025

  Podman kube has support for k8s Jobs now: https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/23722

  k8s docs > concepts > workloads > controllers > job:

• A story on home server security
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2025

  There is a third option: enable the Docker socket and use Docker Compose as usual.

  https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorial...

• Podman for Windows
  1 project | dev.to | 1 Jan 2025

  To install Podman on Windows, start by downloading the Windows installer from the official GitHub release page. Make sure to grab version 4.1 or later for all the features in this guide.

• Beyond Docker - A DevOps Engineer's Guide to Container Alternatives
  4 projects | dev.to | 26 Dec 2024

  In the intensity of working as a DevOps engineer with the container, I have found Podman to be a game-changer in teams that take the security aspect seriously-that means avoiding root privileges. It's daemonless compared with Docker, which is a big architectural change. Daemonless approach just magically changes how teams do container security in production environments.

• Top 8 Docker Alternatives to Consider in 2025
  6 projects | dev.to | 24 Dec 2024

  Podman implements a daemonless container architecture that eliminates the need for a central runtime service. This approach fundamentally differs from Docker's client-server model.

• Day 3: What is Docker and why should I care?
  7 projects | dev.to | 3 Dec 2024

  Docker is a company that maintains the Docker software and also offers a cloud service to run Docker containers in the cloud. They run DockerHub, which is a platform to store share and run Docker images. The actual standard for Docker containers is called OCI (Open Container Initiative). Because Docker is based on OCI there are many other tools that can interact with Docker containers, like Podman or Lima. If you want to go really deep, I really recommend reading the OCI specification! It's long but super interesting.

• Personal TODO list on how I set up my dev machine
  14 projects | dev.to | 19 Nov 2024

  I install docker (this is quite a boring process, to make it sudoers and so I can run without sudo). On Mac instead I use podman.

• Bootstrap your projects with Docker init
  3 projects | dev.to | 18 Nov 2024

  Nowadays, we can’t talk about Docker without mentioning it’s alternative Podman.

• We're Leaving Kubernetes
  15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Nov 2024

  I strongly recommend just switching the Dev environment over to Linux and taking advantage of tools like "distrobox" and "toolbx".

  https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

  https://containertoolbx.org/

  It is sorta like Vagrant, but instead of using virtualbox virtual machines you use podman containers. This way you get to use OCI images for your "dev environment" that integrates directly into your desktop.

  https://podman.io/

  There is some challenges related to usermode networking for non-root-managed controllers and desktop integration has some additional complications. But besides that it has almost no overhead and you can have unfettered access to things like GPUs.

  Also it is usually pretty easy to convert your normal docker or kubernetes containers over to something you can run on your desktop.

  Also it is possible to use things like Kubernetes pods definitions to deploy sets of containers with podman and manage it with systemd and such things. So you can have "clouds of containers" that your dev container needs access to locally.

  If there is a corporate need for window-specific applications then running Windows VMs or doing remote applications over RDP is a possible work around.

  If everything you are targeting as a deployment is going to be Linux anything then it doesn't make a lot of sense to jump through a bunch of hoops and cause a bunch of headaches just to avoid having it as workstation OS.

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