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Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF

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272 points twelvenmonkeys | 3 comments | 14 Nov 24 17:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.611s | source
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kuratkull ◴[14 Nov 24 19:28 UTC] No.42140145[source]▶
Podman actually works really well. Out-of-the-box virtually-no-configuration-needed rootless containers. It's also usable via docker-compose with a single env variable. (podman-compose wasn't up to par for us)

We've been using it for a couple of years running and managing hundreds of containers per server - no feeling of flakiness whatsoever. It's virtually zeroconf and even supports GPUs for those who need it. It's like docker but better, IMO.

Hope it gets a popularity boost from CNCF. Rooting for it.

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1. papichulo2023 ◴[14 Nov 24 20:22 UTC] No.42140768[source]▶
I only dislike Podman because some distributions used it as an alias for docker which made a lot of docker-compatible software to not work on that distribution unless some workarounds. I wouldnt normally blame the application for this but in this case they are both, application and distribution, from the same dev.
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2. colechristensen ◴[14 Nov 24 20:29 UTC] No.42140838[source]▶
Agreed, the `podman` command is 95% drop-in compatible with the `docker` command, but those edge cases are annoying and I would rather just use the docker cli backed with podman running the containers.
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3. tristan957 ◴[14 Nov 24 20:43 UTC] No.42141004[source]▶
Podman has a docker frontend. On Fedora, it is packaged as podman-docker, I believe. I recently went through the pain of getting testcontainers working on Fedora 41 with Podman. After enabling the Podman socket and setting an environment variables, I was off to the races!