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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.

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[-] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 136 points 2 days ago

Why would you use docker when you could use podman?

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago

I use docker since it's what I learned on a decade ago, and my nas that I started from supports docker bit not podman in the 'app store'. I have three other machines running plain Debian, but I would want everything to work together, y'know? I've got a set-and-forget setup and I'd rather not break things without substantial benefit...

Plus everybody is like 'it's the same thing, no learning curve' but then I start reading up on it and uhoh, learning curves :p

[-] definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 42 points 2 days ago

Plus everybody is like 'it's the same thing, no learning curve' but then I start reading up on it and uhoh, learning curves :p

Exactly this. I tried podman, as a "container" newb, based on the idea that it's a (better) drop-in replacement for docker, but it didn't work. My quick attempts to resolve it went nowhere, and there were no instructions for the container I was trying to spin up for podman to explain the differences required.

So, in frustration, I decided to try docker and it just worked.

Good enough for me, for now. I still prefer the idea of not having a daemon running with root privileges, so I'll likely move over to podman eventually, but I only have so much time to waste tinkering with my setup. And if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

[-] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

In almost all cases podman will work as a drop-in replacement. Problems usually arise from podman not being rootful by default, which does make a difference in most scenarios that involve volume mounts, exposing ports or other kinds of host resource access. You can run podman as root and nowadays even docker as rootless (though at that point you might be better off with podman).

same, docker just works when I'm trying to use version pinning on half my containers so they don't try using the wrong rocm version

[-] andho@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Use docker rootless.

[-] Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Just use the repositories in the terminal...

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I mean, install it from the repos through your package manager in the terminal, on your NAS.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

With every update they warn that any changes made outside the UI may be overwritten (only data in user directories is safe). I have edited a couple config files over the years that have sticked, but they expect the system directories to stay 'stock' and warn of data loss or system malfunction if changed. And since it's my nas it's a lot of data to be going yolo on, even with backups. Wayyyy to much risk for almost no benefit.

[-] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 days ago

Why would you use podman when you could

#!/bin/ksh

daemon_execdir="/home/etebase/src"
daemon_logfile="/var/log/etebase"
daemon="/home/etebase/pyenv/bin/uvicorn"
daemon_flags="etebase_server.asgi:application --host 159.100.247.89 --port 8000"
daemon_user="_etebase"

. /etc/rc.d/rc.subr

rc_bg=YES
rc_reload=NO

pexp="/home/etebase/pyenv/bin/python3 ${daemon} ${daemon_flags}"

rc_start() {
        rc_exec ". ~/.profile; ${daemon} ${daemon_flags} >> ${daemon_logfile} 2>&1"
}

rc_cmd $1
[-] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Oh why you gotta talk so dirty to this little chatbot

[-] beernutz@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Did you mean rc_start $1 as the last line of that script?

[-] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

Idk, I was lazy and copied from here instead of going to one of my actual OpenBSD installations and checking. Could be different on other BSD style inits.

Some containers don't like non-root setups.

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev -1 points 1 day ago

There are still various incompatibilities between the two, and it becomes relevant if you need to work with any organization that has standardized on Docker-specific tooling.

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