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I ditched Docker for Podman

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1101 points codesmash | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 11:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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Tajnymag ◴[05 Sep 25 12:23 UTC] No.45137696[source]▶
I've wanted to migrate multiple times. Unfortunately, it failed on multiple places.

Firstly, podman had a much worse performance compared to docker on my small cloud vps. Can't really go into details though.

Secondly, the development ecosystem isn't really fully there yet. Many tools utilizing Docker via its socket, fail to work reliably with podman. Either because the API differs or because of permission limitations. Sure, the tools could probably work around those limitations, but they haven't and podman isn't a direct 1:1 drop in replacement.

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1. seemaze ◴[05 Sep 25 13:56 UTC] No.45138642[source]▶
Thats funny, podman had better performance and less resource usage on my resource constrained system. I chalked it up to crun vs runc, though both docker and podman both support configuring alternate runtimes. Plus no deamon..