There may be some overhead with networking if your application uses a very large amount of bandwidth. See: https://github.com/rootless-containers/rootlesskit/t

There may be some overhead with networking if your application uses a very large amount of bandwidth. See: https://github.com/rootless-containers/rootlesskit/tree/v0.13.0#network-drivers https://github.com/rootless-containers/rootlesskit/tree/v0.1... Otherwise for general dockerized applications, you won't notice any difference. You may find some quirks, but these can all be worked around easily as described on the rootless docker page. We run it in production with no issues so far.