I ditched Docker for Podman

vs $11 for docker? blech

Honestly just the debug shell alone is worth a good amount of $. You can remotely run shell commands on your deployed docker container and install packages that are not available in the base image without modifying the base image which can be a life saver.

https://docs.orbstack.dev/features/debug

Let alone the local resource monitor, increased, performance, automated local domains (no more complicated docker network settings to get your app working with local host), and more.

it does sound pretty compelling

Check out my tool https://github.com/jrz/container-shell

I basically use (orbstack) docker containers as light weight VM, easily accessible through multiple shells and they shutdown when nothing is running anymore.

I use them for development isolation? Or when I need to run some tool. It mounts the current directory, so your container is chrooted to that project.

See my other reply