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cyclohexane
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Podman is a daemon-less alternative to Docker, but with Rootless containers, grouping containers in pods, and systemd integration. What do you think of it?
Podman is a lot like Docker: a tool for running OCI containers. While it maintains backwards compatibility with Dockerfile and docker-compose syntax, it offers a lot of other benefits:
- daemonless: it can run containers without a daemon process running in the background.
- Rootless: can run containers without root privileges
- pods: can group containers into secluded pods, which share resources and network namespace
Podman has other features I haven't explored yet, like compatibility with Kubernetes yaml file, and being able to run containers as systemd units.
Have you used podman before? What are your thoughts on it?
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