I’m a podman user, but what’s the point of using podman if you are going to use a daemon and run it as root? I like podman so I can specifically avoid those things.
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Molecular0079@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If you use firewalld, both docker and podman apply rules in a special zone separate from your main one.
That being said, podman is great. Podman in rootful mode, along with podman-docker and docker-compose, is basically a drop-in replacement for Docker.
dandroid@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Molecular0079@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I am using it as a migration tool tbh. I am trying to get to rootless, but some of the stuff I host just don’t work well in rootless yet, so I use rootful for those containers. Meanwhile, I am using rootless for dev purposes or when testing out new services that I am unsure about.
Podman also has good integration into Cockpit, which is nice for monitoring purposes.
Link@rentadrunk.org 8 months ago
Is it? Last time I tried none of my docker compose files would start correctly in podman compose.
SLaSZT@kbin.social 8 months ago
I just set it up last week, it works exceptionally well.
Did you also install podman-docker, make sure that the podman socket was running, and verify that the socket directory referenced in the config files was correct?
Those are the 3 things that I got a bit stuck on. In the end, I RTFM and all was well.
Molecular0079@lemmy.world 8 months ago
podman-compose is different from docker-compose. It runs your containers in rootless mode. This may break certain containers if configured incorrectly. This is why I suggested podman-docker, which allows podman to emulate docker, and the native docker-compose tool. Then you use
sudo docker-composeto run your compose files in rootful mode.warmaster@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How is Podman rootful better than Docker? I was mostly attracted by the rootless path, but the breakage deterred me. Would you be so kind to tell me ?
Molecular0079@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It isn’t that much better. I use it as drop-in docker replacement. It’s better integrated with things like cockpit though and the idea is that it’s easier to eventually migrate to rootless if you’re already in the podman ecosystem.