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by jonfw 1731 days ago
Podman can replace docker desktop. It doesn't have the same GUI but it does have the capability to run containers via familiar CLI commands on a variety of OSes, connecting to (and in some cases provisioning through podman machine) a VM when required

I also think that it's more than safe to say that K8s is dropping Docker when they've deprecated it as a container runtime
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zapita 1731 days ago
> I also think that it's more than safe to say that K8s is dropping Docker when they've deprecated it as a container runtime

This is wrong. Docker itself is no longer a container runtime: it has spun out that capability into containerd. Kubernetes can now call Docker’s container runtime (again: containerd) directly instead of going through a redundant docker-shim.

In other words: Kubernetes has dropped Docker’s old container runtime in favor of… Docker’s new container runtime.

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benatkin 1731 days ago
You can also run regular docker with vagrant instead of Docker Desktop. This seems to be the way you can replace Docker Desktop with Podman: https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/replace-docker-podman-macos

There was Kitematic for Docker, I think it was independent, but it's owned by Docker now and they shut it down. https://github.com/docker/kitematic

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nickstinemates 1731 days ago
It evolved to become Docker Desktop
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benatkin 1731 days ago
No it didn't, Docker Desktop was already released before Docker bought Kitematic. I have receipts: https://www.zdnet.com/article/docker-reels-in-kitematic-as-i... (2015) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_(software) (Initial release: 2012)

If you mean Docker Desktop added some features from Kitematic, that's a misleading way of saying it.

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nickstinemates 1731 days ago
Guess I don't know what I'm talking about
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benatkin 1731 days ago
Hmm, I can't find an official Docker installer for Mac that's older than this (2015-08-11), and it has Kitematic. Wikipedia date is for Docker in general. I stand corrected. https://github.com/docker-archive/toolbox/commit/a7e7a070ba9...
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nickstinemates 1731 days ago
The kitematic peeps are wonderful, smart, and genuine people.
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kkapelon 1731 days ago
Docker Desktop also includes a full Kubernetes distribution. It is actually the easiest way to get a local K8s cluster on Windows or Mac.

Docker desktop also includes Docker-compose (a way to chain multiple docker container together)

And of course the UI.

Podman is just replacing the basic docker CLI. I would say that podman replaces about 20% of what Docker desktop offers.

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