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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: 0.217s | source
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t43562 ◴[05 Sep 25 12:31 UTC] No.45137756[source]▶
To provide 1 contrary opinion to all the others saying they have a problem:

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!

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Izmaki ◴[05 Sep 25 12:37 UTC] No.45137807[source]▶
None of your companies need to worry about licenses. Docker ENGINE is free and open source. Docker DESKTOP is a software suite that requires you to purchase a license to use in a company.

But Docker Engine, the core component which works on Linux, Mac and Windows through WSL2, that is completely and 1000% free to use.

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t43562 ◴[05 Sep 25 12:38 UTC] No.45137811[source]▶
Those companies use docker desktop on their dev's machines.
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connicpu ◴[05 Sep 25 12:42 UTC] No.45137842[source]▶
There's no need if all your devs use desktop Linux as their primary devices like we do where I work :)
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t43562 ◴[05 Sep 25 12:44 UTC] No.45137857[source]▶
On Mac we just switched to podman and didn't have anything to worry about.
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1. lmm ◴[06 Sep 25 02:00 UTC] No.45145909[source]▶
Really? We switched 6+ months ago and I'm still dealing with all the little broken corners that keep cropping up.