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I ditched Docker for Podman

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1101 points codesmash | 4 comments | 05 Sep 25 11:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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rweichler ◴[05 Sep 25 14:59 UTC] No.45139352[source]▶
On the topic of ditching Docker, has anyone else created a custom test harness with QEMU? I feel like I'm the only person doing it this way. QEMU's target userbase is emulators in general, which is a much broader audience with way more development effort going into it, therefore I don't think it can ever go "out of fashion" or get hijacked by perverse corporate interests like Docker can. Podman seems to have the same vulnerability.
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1. drzaiusx11 ◴[05 Sep 25 15:01 UTC] No.45139371[source]▶
This is what Lima is, which is the basis for Colima which runs on top with all the Docker runtime stuff

https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

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2. rweichler ◴[05 Sep 25 15:55 UTC] No.45140003[source]▶
Interesting, thanks. Looks much better than Docker/Podman. But seems to suffer from the same incentive issue. I think I'll stick with my raw QEMU setup, Lima seems like QEMU + batteries, but I already built the batteries.
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3. drzaiusx11 ◴[05 Sep 25 18:08 UTC] No.45141660[source]▶
Fun fact podman desktop is just a front end to Lima, or was last I checked
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4. rweichler ◴[05 Sep 25 19:26 UTC] No.45142609{3}[source]▶
Yeah, seems like the power law is at play here. I made my test harness in 2020 so I didn't have a choice as Lima didn't exist back then. I should have waited a year. I'll certainly keep an eye on it