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It is! At least 99%, in my experience. The one big difference is that Podman is "daemonless", which is actually a huge advantage in a lot of cases. The one down

It is! At least 99%, in my experience. The one big difference is that Podman is "daemonless", which is actually a huge advantage in a lot of cases. The one downside is that it won't automatically restart your containers if your host machine reboots.

born2discover 4y ago
For that Podman provides a nifty little trick: `podman generate systemd`[0] which allows you to generate systemd unit files for your pods and/or containers. Once generated and enabled, your pods/containers act as systemd services that can be started, stopped etc. [0]: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-generate-systemd.1.html https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-generate-sy...
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
  Yup. I use this for all my home server services like Plex, Adguard, etc. I reboot my machine after kernel updates and everything comes up flawlessly.
- markonen 4y ago
  This is no longer necessary as of Podman 3.3 or so--there's a single Podman systemd unit that will launch all containers that have restart=always.
  - born2discover 4y ago
    Interesting! Do you have by any chance a link the documentation about it, because so far all I could find are links to information about `podman generate systemd`.
  - buzzert 4y ago
    That's awesome, I didn't know about that. Looks like the service is called podman-restart.service on my system.
- deno 4y ago
  This generator has even better systemd integration: https://github.com/containers/quadlet https://github.com/containers/quadlet
Klasiaster 4y ago
The "podman.service" systemd unit takes care of restarting containers that were marked so.
- Klasiaster 4y ago
  correction: podman-restart.service
forty 4y ago
I want to mention the "-userns=keep-id" option of podman, which is a reason enough to use podman rather than docker on a Linux laptop.
hitpointdrew 4y ago
The biggest drawback for me is that podman cannot build containers.
- mathstuf 4y ago
  Huh? I use `podman build` all the time. Sure, it uses `buildah` in the backend, but does that really matter?
  - hitpointdrew 4y ago
    On Mac OS at least there is a bunch of hoops you have to jump through for build to work at all. If I recall you needed virtualbox installed (which I don't want). With docker it just works, you install docker you can run docker build, no extra troubleshooting, or hacky workarounds, just so you can use basic functionality.

born2discover 4y ago

For that Podman provides a nifty little trick: `podman generate systemd`[0] which allows you to generate systemd unit files for your pods and/or containers. Once generated and enabled, your pods/containers act as systemd services that can be started, stopped etc. [0]: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-generate-systemd.1.html https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-generate-sy...

2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
Yup. I use this for all my home server services like Plex, Adguard, etc. I reboot my machine after kernel updates and everything comes up flawlessly.
markonen 4y ago
This is no longer necessary as of Podman 3.3 or so--there's a single Podman systemd unit that will launch all containers that have restart=always.
- born2discover 4y ago
  Interesting! Do you have by any chance a link the documentation about it, because so far all I could find are links to information about `podman generate systemd`.
- buzzert 4y ago
  That's awesome, I didn't know about that. Looks like the service is called podman-restart.service on my system.
deno 4y ago
This generator has even better systemd integration: https://github.com/containers/quadlet https://github.com/containers/quadlet

Klasiaster 4y ago

The "podman.service" systemd unit takes care of restarting containers that were marked so.

Klasiaster 4y ago
correction: podman-restart.service

forty 4y ago

I want to mention the "-userns=keep-id" option of podman, which is a reason enough to use podman rather than docker on a Linux laptop.

hitpointdrew 4y ago

The biggest drawback for me is that podman cannot build containers.

mathstuf 4y ago
Huh? I use `podman build` all the time. Sure, it uses `buildah` in the backend, but does that really matter?
- hitpointdrew 4y ago
  On Mac OS at least there is a bunch of hoops you have to jump through for build to work at all. If I recall you needed virtualbox installed (which I don't want). With docker it just works, you install docker you can run docker build, no extra troubleshooting, or hacky workarounds, just so you can use basic functionality.