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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. …ssh://core@localhost:[PORT] # Export socket location > export DOCKER_HOST='/tmp/podman.sock' https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/11462 https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/11397
  2. …machine init $ podman machine start $ alias docker=podman If you're on an M1 you may run into https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/10577 (which is WIP, and may have been resolved by https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/11451 ).
    comment by williamsmj · 2021-09-08 · in How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac
  3. …current dir's `docker-compose.yml`, with mounts from the host and a default network. I'm following https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/11389 and https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/11397
  4. …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 I agree that Podman is not yet a complete replacement for Docker on macOS, but the…
    comment by sjellis · 2021-09-05 · in Migrating from Docker to Podman
  5. …How are its permissions configured? Here's some issues with some random flags to configure: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/6368 . How are these linked to podman? The devs know, where is this documented for Joe random user? Or…
  6. …part of podman. It is a third party equivalent and not relevant. The official podman repository is https://github.com/containers/podman , and the machine bits are integrated and part of podman proper: https://github.com/containers/podman/tr…
  7. …the same. The former was probably deprecated because podman machine is now part of podman itself. https://github.com/containers/podman/tree/main/cmd/podman/ma...
  8. …be to install it on the system, but still use the unprivileged users for running the containers. https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/3100
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    Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods
    story by mohanmcgeek · 2021-09-01 · 184 comments
  10. …and lots of time will be necessary to migrate away from Docker. [1] https://www.portainer.io/ [2] https://github.com/containers/podman/issues [3] https://github.com/containers/podman-compose/issues
  11. ▲ 2
    Podman: A Docker Alternative for the Masses
    story by tediousdemise · 2021-05-02 · 0 comments
  12. …Simply use alias docker=podman and you’ll never know the difference. [0] https://podman.io/ [1] https://github.com/containers/podman
    comment by tediousdemise · 2021-05-02 · in Ignoring Docker updates is a paid feature now?
  13. …the past. What happend was this: I went to the central starting point of the repo's database (e.g., https://github.com/containers/podman/issues ), removed the filters like `is:open` from the search bar, and entered one or two keywords that…
    comment by nednar · 2021-02-13 · in Podman: A Daemonless Container Engine
  14. Not entirely true. I was researching this few hours ago and according to https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/6114#issuecommen... it just works when you add another network. Docker registry having no IPv6 is another fun story tho.
    comment by flowless · 2021-02-11 · in Podman: A Daemonless Container Engine
  15. …many ways of running containers as a normal user: https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/rootless/ https://github.com/containers/podman#rootless
    comment by watermelon0 · 2020-12-27 · in Run More Stuff in Docker
  16. Podman can also deploy from Kubernetes config https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/master/docs/source...
  17. …and it is used extensively in Kubernetes and OpenShift, but not so much outside of that. [1] https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/8323
    comment by freedomben · 2020-11-20 · in Transitioning from Docker to Podman
  18. …Podman did not yet exist. Dan Walsh had not yet made the initial commit that began Podman's life: https://github.com/containers/podman/commit/2b74391cd5281f6f... So I think it's safe to say that Podman was not mentioned in the article…
    comment by freedomben · 2020-10-14 · in Containers Are Linux (2017)
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    Library and tool for running OCI-based containers in Pods
    story by gtt · 2020-06-30 · 0 comments
  20. …Docker/Moby :) > the truth is that container engines run Slirp without the seccomp support Untrue. https://github.com/containers/libpod/blob/d4a3c05c0fcd0c53fa... https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/b47e74255811b2ead92b222541...
    comment by AkihiroSuda · 2020-06-01 · in Rootless Containers
  21. …are some fairly well documented shortcomings to consider/work-around. You can find that list at https://github.com/containers/libpod/blob/master/rootless.md
    comment by maztaim · 2020-05-31 · in Rootless Containers
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    Libpod: A library used to create container pods
    story by nif2ee · 2020-02-06 · 0 comments
  23. …works” on Linux but it still has some work to be done before the same could be said for macOS. E.g. https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues/4039#issuecommen...
  24. …require root access to the machine (that's how I use it), although there are some limitations. https://github.com/containers/libpod/blob/master/rootless.md
  25. …provides). Re: rootless podman, it looks like there's a good resource to track progress here: https://github.com/containers/libpod/blob/v1.6.2/rootless.md - that must be a common ask, could be interesting to track. (I'm definitely guilty…
  26. …any special handling of symlinks is just odd. [Disclaimer: The above is my personal opinion.] [1]: https://github.com/containers/libpod/pull/3214 [2]: https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/5720
    comment by cyphar · 2019-10-15 · in Ask HN: What do you self-host?
  27. …see the strace snippet at the bottom of https://github.com/varlink/linux-varlink 1: https://github.com/containers/libpod/blob/master/cmd/podman/...
  28. …containers using user namespaces. It's actually pretty easy to setup too, especially on Arch: https://github.com/containers/libpod/blob/master/rootless.md
    comment by techntoke · 2019-08-22 · in Making containers safer
  29. Comparing the shortcomings of rootless podman ( https://github.com/containers/libpod/blob/master/rootless.md ) and rootless docker, they seem almost the same. So this argument may not count, the daemon argument however applies.
    comment by zufallsheld · 2019-07-27 · in Docker 19.03: Rootless Mode (Experimental)
  30. …https://rootlesscontaine.rs/ https://github.com/rootless-containers https://github.com/containers/libpod/blob/master/rootless.md
  31. …way back in 2016. [0]: https://github.com/containerd [1]: https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o [2]: https://github.com/containers/libpod [3]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/docker-dev/zaZFlvIx1...
  32. I just looked at https://github.com/containers/libpod/blob/master/docs/tutori... . For debian/ubuntu users (of which there are a fair quantity) whilst podman's install process looks like that, I don't see it taking over from Docker any…
    comment by raesene9 · 2019-03-10 · in Goodbye Docker and Thanks for all the Fish
  33. …looked into it much but do you know how the docker in docker support is in podman? Is this thread ( https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues/746 ) the right one to watch?
  34. …setcap, symlinks, etc.) and compares vfs vs fuse-overlayfs vs in-kernel overlayfs vs docker? [1] https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues/2015
  35. …if not most, operations should not require sudo as of version 1.0. For example, try the commands at https://github.com/containers/libpod/blob/master/docs/tutori...
  36. podman: https://github.com/containers/libpod
  37. …in a similar fashion to how Docker is right now. But it'll take some time to pull that off. [1]: https://github.com/containers/libpod [2]: https://github.com/projectatomic/buildah
  38. A good alternative to Docker is podman the cli built on top of libpod ( https://github.com/containers/libpod ). It has the same api than docker but lets run build and run containers without the need to have root permission.