Podman 🦭

Although it’s been some time since I’ve worked with containers on my local machine, I recently found myself intrigued to discover what’s new with Podman. Setting Up Podman To kick things off, we’ll need to get Podman installed. As my development environment is running on a Mac M2, I’m going to employ Homebrew for this purpose: Install Podman $ brew install podman podman-compose podman-desktop In addition to Podman itself, I’ve also chosen to install Podman Compose and Podman Desktop. The former serves as a fitting replacement for Docker Compose, allowing for the definition and orchestration of multi-container applications within the Podman environment. On the other hand, Podman Desktop is a handy GUI for Podman that substitutes Docker Desktop. ...

Last weekend I posted about Docker Desktop Alternatives for macOS, and it looks like I missed one as the week before Podman↗ release version v3.3.0↗ which introduced support for macOS by allowing you to launch a Podman managed virtual machine. So, What is Podman? Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System. Containers can either be run as root or in rootless mode. ...