Podman Quadlets with Podman Desktop

I have been trying to use podman with docker containers to avoid the docker license fee, yet to no avail. Wish there was a tutorial. The docker desktop is a nice interface to interact with containers and podman did not have that last time I checked.

edit: Looks like it changed quite a lot. this looks so much nicer

edit2: I still need a tutorial. had so many errors come up. :(

I don't want to dissuade you from Podman Desktop, because Podman is awesome in its own way, but I do hear you about the "uncanny valley" part.

I wanted to offer that you don't have to jump all the way to podman (and Podman Desktop) just to escape the Docker Desktop licensing problem. There are a lot of alternatives which a whole spectrum of "I am CLI savvy or not" interaction experiences

- Rancher Desktop is A++ and carries a friendly license https://rancherdesktop.io/ -> https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/blob/v1.1...

- colima (and the lima it wraps) -> https://github.com/abiosoft/colima#readme

- there's one from AWS called Finch <https://github.com/runfinch/finch> that some of my colleagues like better than colima; YMMV <https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-finch-an...>

What OS are you running it on?

If you’re on a Mac, I highly recommend OrbStack. Perfect Docker compatibility so far, actually better Rosetta support than Docker itself.