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  • Interesting.

    I used to do it the way you’re recommending (before I had podman compose), but I got tired of installing docker compose, and haven’t suffered enough for just using Podman compose, lately.

    I do think more things are more likely to work the way you’re saying. Compose doesn’t seem to be standardized yet? And the original dev was probably using Docker compose - for any randomly selected project.

    But when I can get away with podman compose, I do, as I recall it being much easier to setup.


  • Podman is the RedHat implementation of the Open Container Initiative (OCI).

    A Dockerfile and a Containerfile are both OCI. Docker and Podman can generally both use either.

    Contrasted with Docker, Podman has better security defaults, and installers and licenses that are both actually open source. (Parts of Docker are open source. Parts are not.)

    Docker used to lead with additional features beyond OCI such as Docker Compose, but Podman Compose has been a thing for a while, now.

    The more mature a product is, the more likely it works perfectly with any OCI compliant tool.

    For rookie work, I feel like there’s still fair odds the developer only uses Docker and may rely on some anti-pattern that requires setting “bad security=ok” settings before their project will work in Podman.

    Your mileage may vary.



  • Docker desktop is not. (open source)

    Which can be a pretty big deal.

    This works out to: The product is unencumbered, but the only reliable installer is encumbered as fuck.

    That’s a “no thanks”, from me.

    I don’t need the sword of “Docker fucking with my colleague’s ability to collaborate” hanging over each of my projects.

    I’m not mad at folks using Docker for backwards compatibility. I just don’t need to make the problem worse.












  • Linux, MacOS and Windows have been completely rewritten multiple times across their existence.

    So it’s not like the original decisions are all still in play.

    Windows and Mac OS were rewritten under some particular weird duresses of closed source profit driven engineering; so it has been a mix of improvements and seemingly illogical setbacks.

    Linux developers still need to eat, so some of the same (corporate) influences are there.

    But the average engineer who sets out to create a brand new completely modern operating system - usually decides to reuse any components of Linux that they don’t have any concerns with…

    Which usually gives us yet another cool new Linux variant.

    But sometimes we get…

    something very different

    A cool new FreeBSD variant!