EDIT: For some context, I recently gave podman another go. I have a few services on my homelab server set up in docker containers, so I tried migrating to podman.
After the second major bug (open issue on github) I encountered looked like it would require completely dropping using compose files to work around, I gave up and went back to docker.
I like the idea of podman, but it’s just not stable. I’ll try again in a year or so.
As a bonus, docker’s CLI is significantly nicer.
I choose Podman bc it’s open source and that’s kind of the reason for using everything as a container bc those are often also open source. Fuck docker
It also can integrate with Systemd via Quadlets. Let’s you control containers as a sytemd service. I personally use them for my home server and have been happy with it.
The learning curve for quadlets is quite harsh in my opinion. I started with podman compose 3 years ago for my homelab, because it allowed user containers.
I tried to migrate to quadlets unsuccessfully, several times over the years. it was only recently that my self-hosted Qwen was capable enough to figure out where I was messing up and automate the process a bit.
I probably wasn’t sufficiently motivated. It felt like podman compose is basically docker compose, but quadlets are a quite a bit different in form and function, so I was never able to grok them:
There is a tool named Podlet that can help translate to quadlets. I was able to fully translate my unraid and compose setups to quadlets.
I remember trying it and my compose files blew up to multiple Quadlet files with a much larger total size (lines of code). I find that compose is just more concise and structured compared to Quadlets.
It does have a larger file size compared to compose, sure. The big advantage of quadlets is that systemd will handle things in the event of a failure. It makes it a great option for production environments where you will not need to update your config files as much. It also allows you to have more control over when each application starts, if they rely on a specific disk mount or service running on the system. I’m sure someone else can provide more benefits who use them in a production environment.
Are u running podman containers on Unraid or did you migrate away?
Wtf I thought docker was foss. Fml man
Docker is foss.
Are you sure about that? I see Copyright at the bottom (maybe the name) and is free only for personal tier, everything else costs money. Maybe some of the containers are open source per https://www.docker.com/products/trusted-content/open-source/ but I don’t see where it says anywhere that the actual software that is docker is OSS let alone FOSS.
The core of Docker is called Moby, which is open source on GitHub. So are docker-cli and compose
Ah, explains the whale!
It’s FOSS, but not Libre, and more close to open-core than to open source.
The version that is installable from the repositories of Linux distros is all open source. Docker itself, the container engine and runtime are all open source. Nobody cares about stuff like docker desktop or docker sbx, not only are they not critical to the software itself, they aren’t that useful or valuable.
I don’t mean Docker Desktop, I mean docker-cli and moby.
Just because something has a FOSS license and is open-sourced in some code forge doesn’t mean that it effectively respects some (or even all) of the four freedoms.
The version you get from Debian does respect all four freedoms.
If you install the GUI it literally won’t let you open it unless you agree to their telemetry…
It also works better sooo
Also, does Docker do rootless containers yet?
It does, but it seems like it’s still a bit of an afterthought. But it’s getting better.
Still tho, podman is fine and I like the project as an alternative to docker.
Docker rootless has been more stable for me than podman
Docker is open source though. Docker desktop is not.
So, the Docker engine is free, just not the software under certain stipulations. See I don’t like that. A weird caveat for using it.
What do you mean? I don’t see any CLAs or anything like that in the source code.
https://github.com/moby/moby
https://github.com/docker/cli
This
NOTICEin both repos is weird asf:Also, they do limit some kind of uses if you don’t pay.
You mean Docker Desktop?
Also iirc all software developed in the USA is subject to those restrictions.
Oh, well, I didn’t knew about that, yeah.
And, in part yes, but these restrictions also apply to docker-cli and moby, although to a lesser extent
What restrictions? The ones on all US software or something else?
No, I mean, for anything beyond personal, non-commercial use, they do impose restrictions.
Also it’s more secure and performant as it’s rootless and daemonless.