[_lvbh]

I have the CLI installed and use it quite often for managing containers and as a replacement for docker-compose. Can anyone comment on whether docker is better? I’ve never had any issues with podman and use it since it’s installed by default but curious why more people use docker.

[mdaniel]

I'd guess the short answer is "inertia," and that word applies to the whole ecosystem: tutorials, existing infrastructure, chatgpt summaries, stackoverflow questions (maybe that one is redundant now, heh), etc, etc

We run 100% containerd in production because I previously had the docker daemon lock up which nukes every container on the host, and never installed docker ever again on any production instance. But, I have no interest in babysitting every junior (or, ahem, some senior ones) engineer to mentally translate the docker commands to either podman or nerdctl. I am aware some folks allege $(alias docker=podman) works for them, and good for you, but that's not been my experience