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Podman

Containers without a daemon and without root privileges, good for individual hosts.

Podman starts containers without a central daemon and, if required, without root privileges. It uses the same images as Docker and largely the same commands. With Quadlet, containers run as systemd services on a host.

We place it in Trial. It fits individual servers and isolated networks well, where Kubernetes would be too much. Differences from Docker in Compose and networking should be tested beforehand.

  • you run individual hosts with a few containers
  • security requirements call for containers without root privileges
  • CI runners operate in isolated networks
Not a good fit if …
  • containers are orchestrated across many hosts; in that case, use Kubernetes
  • tools strictly require the Docker daemon

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