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Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

138 mentions on Hacker News by 110 people: 17 stories, 121 comments · first 2018-08-21 · latest 2026-10-23

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  1. …mounts it works pretty well. Podman also has a fully rootless mode which can work for many uses: https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/blob/main/d...
    comment by 80fj0348i · 2026-10-23 · in Docker is weird
  2. …while running the container processes in an unprivileged namespace. See the discussion here: https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/discussions...
  3. …a major miss. For anyone curious, there's more details on why this is tricky to do with Podman at https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/pull/27033 .
    comment by stryan · 2026-07-03 · in Podman v6.0.0
  4. …are just similarly confused. The last reply to that thread explains the situation well[0]. [0]: https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/issues/2707...
    comment by tasuki · 2026-07-03 · in Podman v6.0.0
  5. …[3] https://documentation.ubuntu.com/release-notes/24.04/schedul... [4] https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/releases?pa...
    comment by Brybry · 2026-07-03 · in Podman v6.0.0
  6. …version is 4.9.3. It may be incompressible to you, but I'm not alone in thinking it's a problem: https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/issues/2707...
    comment by rsyring · 2026-07-03 · in Podman v6.0.0
  7. …version looks like this[1], who is really going to consider this for serious production uses? 1: https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/discussions...
    comment by rsyring · 2026-07-03 · in Podman v6.0.0
  8. …as a forefront before it was ready and still no proper support for Ubuntu on v4 of Podman. [1] https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/discussions...
    comment by Chyzwar · 2026-07-02 · in Podman v6.0.0
  9. …to podman again, but it needs to have a “be 100% compatible with Docker” mode as opposed to this: https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/issues/1478...
    comment by trollbridge · 2026-07-02 · in Podman v6.0.0
  10. Would be great to know if I can uninstall docker on Mac and just install https://github.com/containers/podman/releases and be good to go with my docker compose files ?! I have the feeling the docker company is communicating a lot with…
    comment by therealmarv · 2026-07-02 · in Podman v6.0.0
  11. …Claude user running container, Rootless Podman is very easy to setup, it's all I use on Debian 13: https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/blob/main/d... Depending on what container you are running, sometimes you need to fiddle…
    comment by suprjami · 2026-06-15 · in My Claude Code Setup
  12. Podman approach: https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/28238
    comment by kermatt · 2026-03-28 · in Docker Sandboxes
  13. …I want it to just work, not make everyone in the industry redo their dockerfiles to be "correct." https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/6234 It looks like there was some work done to resolve this in 2023 and 2024 but I know this was…
  14. https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorial...
    comment by esafak · 2026-01-23 · in What has Docker become?
  15. …examples and discussion of what they should say in the link. Edit: Here's another one that I filed: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/20775
  16. …network issues. The caddy demo I've linked below explains more about the issues it would solve. [0] https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorial... [1] https://github.com/eriksjolund/podman-caddy-socket-activatio...
  17. …networking (by default from Podman 5.0) It is a noticable improvement for traffic heavy containers. https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorial...
    comment by nezirus · 2025-10-14 · in Passt – Plug a Simple Socket Transport
  18. …GitHub [1], you just need to copy a single statically-linked binary into "/usr/local/bin". [0]: https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/c8183c50/Makefile#... [1]: https://github.com/containers/podman/releases
    comment by gucci-on-fleek · 2025-09-05 · in I ditched Docker for Podman
  19. …having a daemon running as root is larger attack surface than a program running as the user. Going to the github.com/containers/podman/releases, the latest release is actually addressing a security risk that involves overwriting files of…
    comment by pvtmert · 2025-09-05 · in I ditched Docker for Podman
  20. …inside the container supports it, you can use socket activation [0] to get native performance. [0]: https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorial...
    comment by gucci-on-fleek · 2025-09-05 · in I ditched Docker for Podman
  21. …But you don't get any automatic updates like you would if they provided an apt repository. [0]: https://github.com/containers/podman/releases
    comment by gucci-on-fleek · 2025-09-05 · in I ditched Docker for Podman
  22. …and counting to wade through to find some solutions that have worked for some people in some cases. https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/20573#discu...
    comment by markstos · 2025-09-05 · in I ditched Docker for Podman
  23. Tried Podman. It looked quite promising, but failed me: https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/26899 Trying Incus now
  24. …stan) Last I tried using the .kube files I ran into issues with specifying container networks ( https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/12965 ). This is sort of "fixed" by using a Quadlet ".kube" but IMO that's a pretty weak solution…
    comment by GCUMstlyHarmls · 2025-08-21 · in Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit
  25. …to use rootless vs `userns=auto`? I haven't really seen any discussion of it other than this issue: https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/13728
    comment by kaylynb · 2025-05-07 · in Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)
  26. …using rootful with --userns=auto, which will run your containers each in a unique user namespace. ― https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/12778#issuecomme...
  27. …container process. Network traffic sent over this socket-activated socket has native performance. https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorial...
    comment by eriksjolund · 2025-05-06 · in Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)
  28. …address (e.g. for web server logs), you have to use a workaround which has a performance penalty. https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/10884 https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/9052 https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/111…
  29. …and DynamicUser= is incompatible with Podman so --user is being used as a replacement. Looks messy. https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/20573
    comment by soraminazuki · 2025-05-06 · in Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)
  30. Podman quadlet supports "Socket activation of containers" https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorial... This allows you to run a network server with `Network=none` (--network=none). If the server would be compromised, the…
    comment by eriksjolund · 2025-04-14 · in Podman Quadlets with Podman Desktop
  31. …env var pointing to the socket is enough to trigger a connection and service activation? [0] https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorial...
  32. Socket activation can be used with quadlets but not with docker-compose. That is a big advantage. https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorial...
  33. On the off chance it matters to anyone, brew whines that podman requires macOS 13.x due to https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/22121 but that's only for $(podman machine start) support, which relies on…
  34. …or Rocky Linux with SELinux, and reading some articles. Here are a few: - Podman rootless tutorial https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorial... - With a socket activated container, you can have a container listen on a…
    comment by benatkin · 2025-01-26 · in I don't like Docker or Podman
  35. …dev containers (why would I possibly want that there? I'm not ensuring Heisenbugs myself :P). [1] https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorial...
    comment by dannymi · 2025-01-12 · in Why I Chose Common Lisp
  36. Podman kube has support for k8s Jobs now: https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/23722 k8s docs > concepts > workloads > controllers > Jobs: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/jo... Ingress, Deployment,…
  37. There is a third option: enable the Docker socket and use Docker Compose as usual. https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorial...
    comment by Cyph0n · 2025-01-05 · in A story on home server security
  38. …you suggest, mostly everyone still uses docker. https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/rootless/ https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorial...
    comment by PufPufPuf · 2024-10-06 · in 200GB Free Cloud for Your Files
  39. …get what you are saying, but note a word of caution - kernel upgrades can break container runtimes: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/10623 .
  40. containers/podman > [Feature]: Android support: https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/17717 : > There are docker and containerd in termux-packages. https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/tree/master/root-p... But Android 13+…
  41. …helm template: https://helm.sh/docs/helm/helm_template/ "RFE Allow podman to run Helm charts" https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/15098#issuecomme... helm template --dry-run --debug . --generate-name \ --values values.yaml | tee…
  42. …are issues with how Podman produces JSON logs https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector/issues/6807 https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/16317 which needs to get fixed before I can use it for my workloads.
  43. …, but it's not what one could consider production ready. Example of why: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/5102#issuecommen...
    comment by throwaway74354 · 2024-03-27 · in Podman 5.0 has been released
  44. …but the conversation petered out. Solution: https://stackoverflow.com/a/77354286/145504 Discussion: https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/20445
    comment by rgovostes · 2024-03-27 · in Podman 5.0 has been released
  45. ▲ 8
    Podman – v5.0.0
    story by bricss · 2024-03-19 · 0 comments
  46. ▲ 5
    Podman 5.0.0: final release candidate
    story by timost · 2024-03-16 · 1 comment
  47. AFAIK podman either already supports pods in quadlet container files, or will in the near future. https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/20762
  48. …then adding all my desired container apps and services inside a `devbox.json` file. [1] https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/18691#issuecomme...
  49. looks like this issue: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/20639
  50. https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/20081 https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/20428 https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/20462 https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/19611