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.

Wtf I thought docker was foss. Fml man

It also works better sooo

Also, does Docker do rootless containers yet?

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

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

What's the benefit over Docker?

This! Podman rootless quadlets is so powerful and beautifully simple. Just look at that faaar superior security model and hos it doesnt even need a service to manage services because it just integrates natively with systemd I replaced my entire container layer from Rocker Swarm way back with K8s. Then it dawned on me I dont want the pods to move to another node by themselves anyway and then I just moved to Podman quadlets managed Ansible. Oh, and the podman pods are awesome as well.

Docker bypasses your firewall and runs as root. Only an idiot would allow that shit.... I'm an idiot. But I'm fixing that.

I literally yesterday dealt with that. There’s an option to just turn off Docker’s firewall manipulation so you can do it manually.

I am running my entire homelab from podman quadlets (systemd managed podman containers) and it’s honestly very dope. Podman gets a bad rap for being second tier to docker but they legit have a bunch of awesome features for Linux users specifically that make it way nicer. Using systemd for docker status can add some misdirection occasionally, but having the logs from containers directly in journalctl alongside the rest of my system logs is amazing

I mean, that definitely seems like a you problem.

Pomdan won't work on my system because that is my alias to send Dan a message that I would like some more Pom.