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I ditched Docker for Podman

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1101 points codesmash | 3 comments | 05 Sep 25 11:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.652s | source
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dktalks ◴[05 Sep 25 14:38 UTC] No.45139130[source]▶
If you are on a Mac, I have been using OrbStack[1] and it has been fantastic. I spin up few containers there, but my biggest use is just spinning up Alpine linux and then running most of my Docker containers in there.

[1] https://orbstack.dev/

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1. classified ◴[05 Sep 25 15:21 UTC] No.45139615[source]▶
You mean, you let Docker containers run inside the OrbStack container, or how does that work?
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2. dktalks ◴[05 Sep 25 16:27 UTC] No.45140413[source]▶
No, you don't run the Docker containers run in OrbStack, you can spin up an Alpine instance and run all docker instance on it.

The benefit is that, Alpine has access to all your local and network drives so you can use them. You can sandbox them as well. It's not a big learning curve, just a good VM with access to all drives but isolated to local only.

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3. dktalks ◴[05 Sep 25 16:33 UTC] No.45140479[source]▶
And you can run Docker inside OrbStack too, it is really good. But most of my containers are optimized Alpine containers so I prefer to run them on an OS they were built for and others in OrbStack.