Podman is a lot like Docker: a tool for running OCI containers. While it maintains backwards compatibility with Dockerfile and docker-compose syntax, it offers a lot of other benefits:
- daemonless: it can run containers without a daemon process running in the background.
- Rootless: can run containers without root privileges
- pods: can group containers into secluded pods, which share resources and network namespace
Podman has other features I haven’t explored yet, like compatibility with Kubernetes yaml file, and being able to run containers as systemd units.
Have you used podman before? What are your thoughts on it?
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Yes but imo it’s easier and nicer to integrate Podman into an existing build, for example with maven
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You typically don’t use podman to build images and you would instead use something like buildah.
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