I share the same experience. Docker requires a root daemon, for full capabilities. Podman claims it can do the same rootlessly, reality is it almost does it all

I share the same experience. Docker requires a root daemon, for full capabilities. Podman claims it can do the same rootlessly, reality is it almost does it all, evil in the details. Podman is to be applauded yes, but fabulous tools have been coded that rely on the socket listener,so aliasing podman will not work with that. I think Docker is a fascinating enginnering story, an amazing tool to simplify and give life to groupc, which got released to the wild and sat while seeing competition offer decent alternatives that got adoption. They could have become the de facto container runtime implementation, perhaps swarm the de facto orchestrator, had they actually kept their distance ahead of every other competing alternatives. They could have charged almost all they want for enterprise licensing of a brilliant runtime and even more for the orchestrator. They failed. Seeing they hired 300+ employees and didn't maintain their pioneership is a testament of their incapability to run a business. The hope for docker to survive is that the open source community forks and improves what's now called moby. As a business they missed the boat.