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by papichulo2023 582 days ago
I only dislike Podman because some distributions used it as an alias for docker which made a lot of docker-compatible software to not work on that distribution unless some workarounds. I wouldnt normally blame the application for this but in this case they are both, application and distribution, from the same dev.
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Agreed, the `podman` command is 95% drop-in compatible with the `docker` command, but those edge cases are annoying and I would rather just use the docker cli backed with podman running the containers.
Podman has a docker frontend. On Fedora, it is packaged as podman-docker, I believe. I recently went through the pain of getting testcontainers working on Fedora 41 with Podman. After enabling the Podman socket and setting an environment variables, I was off to the races!