[djeiasbsbo]

I've tried both podman and lxd with success but I'm curious, what do you use a tool like that for, mostly?

Not to seem like a hypeman for Kubernetes and similar tools, but I actually seem to only ever use containers combined with something like Kubernetes or Docker Swarm. What do you do that you want to do specifically on one machine? Hosting something? Automation à la CI/CD?

Again, I am actually asking for good use cases without orchestration platforms, I am just curious.

[pak9rabid]

I use it as a replacement for situations where I used to use KVM for Linux VMs. For example, my tvheadend and Zoneminder servers are both running inside LXD containers so that I don't pollute my host machine's environment. It's also a nice way to try out another distro other than what the host machine runs with close-to-metal performance.

[gnufx]

One thing podman is used for is bootstrapping environments for package building under mock, which at least affects people doing Fedora maintenance.

[jaekash]

> I've tried both podman and lxd with success but I'm curious, what do you use a tool like that for, mostly?

I use podman for dev and test environments, CI and CD workers and testing OCI containers that I eventually deploy in K8S. No production use cases. Hoping to soon see K3S working inside podman though, and then I would use it for deploying K3S :)