Podman rocks for me!
I find docker hard to use and full of pitfalls and podman isn't any worse. On the plus side, any company I work for doesn't have to worry about licences. Win win!
Was this a deal breaker for any company?
I ask because the Docker Desktop paid license requirement is quite reasonable. If you have less than 250 employees and make less than $10 million in annual revenue it's free.
If you have a dev team of 10 people and are extremely profitable to where you need licenses you'd end up paying $9 a year per developer for the license. So $90 / year for everyone, but if you have US developers your all-in payroll is probably going to be over $200,000 per developer or roughly $2 million dollars. In that context $90 is practically nothing. A single lunch for the dev team could cost almost double that.
To me that is a bargain, you're getting an officially supported tool that "just works" on all operating systems.
Most Mac users I see using it struggle to see the difference between "image" and "container". Complete lack of understanding.
All the same stuff can easily be done from cli.
Because they just want their software package to run and they have been given some magic docker incantation that, if they are lucky, actually launches everything correctly.
The first time I used Docker I had so many damn issues getting anything to work I was put off of it for a long time. Heck even now I am having issues getting GPU pass through working, but only for certain containers, other containers it is working fine for. No idea what I am even supposed to do about that particular bit of joy in my life.
> All the same stuff can easily be done from cli.
If a piece of technology is being forced down a user's throat, users just wants it to work and go out of their way so they can get back to doing their actual job.