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Molecular0079@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nextcloud, Jellyfin, my own personal photography website, and a Valheim server, all done via docker-compose because I haven’t spent the time to learn other container tech yet. I’ve been hearing a lot about podman, what are the benefits over docker for you?
ratz@chatsubo.hiteklolife.net 1 year ago
Mainly selected podman for the security, it doesn’t rely on a daemon and supported rootless containers before docker did. Easy to just come up with a pattern where you can minimise the risk of container breakout by having a user for each container stack to provide even more isolation. You can do the same with docker these days I think, each user just runs their own copy of the docker daemon. The aim of the project was to achieve 1:1 compatibility, I think it’s pretty close these days. It’s also native to the Redhat family so could avoid using the community edition of Docker.
Molecular0079@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thanks! I’ll check it out. I am in the process of building a new hosting machine (my old QNAP NAS died) so I think now’s a good time as any to switch to a new container tech.
ratz@chatsubo.hiteklolife.net 1 year ago
Docker is still what 95% of people think of when you talk containers and you may encounters issues, particularly running things rootlessly as it’s not a use-case that developers necessarily support. Not to discourage you at all, experimentation is great, but be prepared for thorns. 👍