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0 pointslapser3y ago0 comments

It is at least a year or so old. But there have been quite a few bugs, and iirc it was only at v4 where incompatible bugs have been ironed out. Not that it wasn't usable previously, you'd just run into a few issues.

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mekster3y ago

> Not that it wasn't usable previously, you'd just run into a few issues.

I don't like that definition of "usable".

Compose v2.0 compatibility became available only since last month which was very late.

If podman isn't for technical benefit, is this all about political decision for RH to govern container ecosystem on their own instead of dealing with docker?

jordemort3y ago

Podman has a few tricks up its sleeve that Docker can't do. Among other things:

- `--rootfs` lets you start a container from a directory instead of an image

- You can configure alternate container storage locations, e.g. to share a common library of container images among multiple machines over NFS

- As previously mentioned, it has the k8s-like notion of "pods" which are multiple containers sharing namespaces with each other

- It will play nice with systemd, both inside and outside of containers, and can generate systemd services for containers

I think the last point is really why Podman exists in the first place; IIRC, Red Hat's developers made a valiant effort to get patches into Docker to improve its cooperation with systemd, but the folks working on Docker weren't interested. If Red Hat's patches to Docker had been upstreamed, Podman might not exist.

lolcat_cowsay3y ago

Sounds nice and all but I really liked docker compose for setting up containers, I'll have to find out if podman has full docker compose support yet, then maybe I'll switch.

Last time I tested it, it had some downsides, but "last time" was like at the start of this year so things maybe might have improved since then.

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skrtskrt3y ago

I can understand the aversion to Red Hat control but the desire to use Podman is obviously arising from the concern about Docker control of the ecosystem.

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