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Podman Quadlets with Podman Desktop

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180 points teleforce | 1 comments | 14 Apr 25 17:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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orthoxerox ◴[14 Apr 25 20:20 UTC] No.43685880[source]▶
What is the killer feature that will make me want to switch from Docker Compose to Podman Quadlets?
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dharmab ◴[14 Apr 25 20:32 UTC] No.43685989[source]▶
I prefer quadlet for 2 reasons:

1. Podman is simpler than Docker. There is no long-running daemon. Rootless is default.

2. Quadlets can be managed as systemd services, giving me the same tools to manage and view logs for system daemons and containers.

Quadlets have been especially nice for bundling up an AI app I wrote as a cloud-init file, making it easy to deploy the hardware, software and models as one artifact.

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1. steeleduncan ◴[14 Apr 25 22:51 UTC] No.43687155[source]▶
Podman seems to have lower memory overhead than Docker. I assume that is a consequence of your point 1