[AtlasBarfed]

So... about docker, did they backtrack on their licensing landgrab?

About a year ago I swear everyone was going to podman, but in the last few months I see nothing but docker references.

Podman is supposed to be drop-in. Well, it was advertised. I haven't touched anything in six months.

[bongobingo1]

I think Podman is still pretty fringe in the grand count. It also may suffer from an aspect of those that know about it and use it are less likely to write a blog post about it.

I use it and prefer it, much so. Mostly because of rootless (I know docker has made attempts to improve this in the last year or so), not futzing with my iptables and a better handling of pushing images between hosts (it's been over a year since I touched any of that infra, I just remember it being more of hassle with docker which took a "our way or no way" approach).

The biggest issue I have with Podman is the pace of its improvement against the rate of Debian releases!

[dartos]

IIRC docker had some heat for their docker desktop licenses.

I think podman is more secure and simpler, but not as ergonomic to have locally (it’s not quite a drop in for docker. No real docker compose support for example)

Podman is the default for k8s last I heard

[mkesper]

Only use docker engine ("moby"). Docker desktop makes no sense on a Linux system as it introduces a VM into the mix, further adding complexity and reducing performance. https://docs.docker.com/engine/