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I see all comments here and I’m wondering if anybody actually read TFA. This is NOT a drop-in replacement on Mac, very far from it. No volumes mount from the

by xgbi 5y ago

I see all comments here and I’m wondering if anybody actually read TFA. This is NOT a drop-in replacement on Mac, very far from it. No volumes mount from the host, no auto port forward, complications when building images, bugs where the socket isn’t cleared etc. They will get there eventually but this is way over hyped for a sensible replacement for docker on Mac.

manojlds 5y ago
Sounds like standard docker experience then. (Half joking)
kbenson 5y ago
> They will get there eventually but this is way over hyped for a sensible replacement for docker on Mac. The nice thing is that even if it's not useful for you on your development system, your Docker work will still run on it the exact same elsewhere where it does work (hopefully). There is a somewhat recent article from Red Hat on how to get it working on a Mac[1], but it seems somewhat convoluted in that a lot of stuff (virtualization) that Docker for the Mac apparently does for you is not automated yet. Edit: Oh, I guess this announcement for 3.3.0 is more/better non-unix support? Is that the version you tried? Maybe they made some of this easier. 1: https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/replace-docker-podman-macos https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/replace-docker-podman-macos
geerlingguy 5y ago
Seems like the majority of responses I get when I ask about Mac support is "why don't you just run Linux?" I do, but not for my workstation, where I do media production and a lot of other things that require a GUI and I use software that, unfortunately, doesn't run as well on Linux (if at all). I have plenty of Linux servers, but if I wanted to do all my development work 'over the wire' I wouldn't use Docker Desktop either.
- Aeolun 5y ago
  Well, I’d run linux, but I can’t do that on my enterprise laptop since it isn’t supported in any way, shape or form.
sjellis 5y ago
I installed Podman 3.3.1 on a Mac yesterday from Homebrew and volume mounts were definitely an issue, but it otherwise worked as advertised on the command-line. The bugs cited in the article are already fixed in the code, so I don't hold those against it. I did have an issue that was my fault, encountered one genuine bug, and was disappointed to find that there's some work to be done before third-party tools can use it as a Docker replacement: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/11397 https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/11397 I agree that Podman is not yet a complete replacement for Docker on macOS, but the experiment was successful enough for me that I intend to try Podman instead of Docker on Linux servers.

by xgbi 5y ago

manojlds 5y ago

Sounds like standard docker experience then. (Half joking)

kbenson 5y ago

> They will get there eventually but this is way over hyped for a sensible replacement for docker on Mac. The nice thing is that even if it's not useful for you on your development system, your Docker work will still run on it the exact same elsewhere where it does work (hopefully). There is a somewhat recent article from Red Hat on how to get it working on a Mac[1], but it seems somewhat convoluted in that a lot of stuff (virtualization) that Docker for the Mac apparently does for you is not automated yet. Edit: Oh, I guess this announcement for 3.3.0 is more/better non-unix support? Is that the version you tried? Maybe they made some of this easier. 1: https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/replace-docker-podman-macos https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/replace-docker-podman-macos

geerlingguy 5y ago

Seems like the majority of responses I get when I ask about Mac support is "why don't you just run Linux?" I do, but not for my workstation, where I do media production and a lot of other things that require a GUI and I use software that, unfortunately, doesn't run as well on Linux (if at all). I have plenty of Linux servers, but if I wanted to do all my development work 'over the wire' I wouldn't use Docker Desktop either.

Aeolun 5y ago
Well, I’d run linux, but I can’t do that on my enterprise laptop since it isn’t supported in any way, shape or form.

sjellis 5y ago

I installed Podman 3.3.1 on a Mac yesterday from Homebrew and volume mounts were definitely an issue, but it otherwise worked as advertised on the command-line. The bugs cited in the article are already fixed in the code, so I don't hold those against it. I did have an issue that was my fault, encountered one genuine bug, and was disappointed to find that there's some work to be done before third-party tools can use it as a Docker replacement: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/11397 https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/11397 I agree that Podman is not yet a complete replacement for Docker on macOS, but the experiment was successful enough for me that I intend to try Podman instead of Docker on Linux servers.