I’m dense about alt-containers but why? Is this all about Docker security issues? Is Docker too passé now that it’s in production everywhere? Why should I spend money on not using Docker in 2019?
> Why should I spend money on not using Docker in 2019?
You should use what works for you - ultimately you know your context and circumstances better and you can make the decisions that affect you/your team better than any of us.
HN is not an indicator of industry trends, but more of a set of interesting articles and viewpoints that come together, though you will often see authors and commenters pushing hard in certain directions.
In this instance, have a look at the author's part 1 under 'Reasons to switch', see if any of the reasons given work for you.
Thanks for sharing that, it provides a lot more context. I don’t run a lot of containers, but the few I do I’ve naively run on an EC2 VM and ran into many issues with the docker daemon. I’ve since embraced Fargate and haven’t looked back. This takes me back to those hours spent troubleshooting (PSA: don’t use snap to install docker if you want to have a good time) and see the appeal in a daemonless container, and the root access definitely is a concern as well.
Shouldn’t spend literal money. As for why, well I don’t use Podman but Rkt had a similar fork-exec model and it came with loads of benefits, like having containers that integrated well with your init daemon.
Docker has the issue of needing a daemon that runs as another user. Aside from being a security issue it’s just inconvenient and Docker has to go through great lengths to make it all transparent.
Docker the command and Dockerfile the format are great but Docker the company have burnt a lot of people with breaking changes and shonky QA, whereas Podman/Buildah seem to be taking the time to do it right. I get why Docker the company did what they did as a land grab but they sacrificed too much goodwill in the process. Lots of people were like, I want to use containers but I can’t risk or justify using Docker. It’s not clear what their business model is now.
You should use what works for you - ultimately you know your context and circumstances better and you can make the decisions that affect you/your team better than any of us.
HN is not an indicator of industry trends, but more of a set of interesting articles and viewpoints that come together, though you will often see authors and commenters pushing hard in certain directions.
In this instance, have a look at the author's part 1 under 'Reasons to switch', see if any of the reasons given work for you.
https://mkdev.me/en/posts/dockerless-part-1-which-tools-to-r...