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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What makes you dislike docker?

At least from a development perspecrive, it's really convenient, especially when paired with a CICD system and container registry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I tried it once and it rewrote all my firewall rules without telling me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah that's a gripe of mine. Thankfully podman doesn't do that.

Docker also sometimes breaks lxd and libvirt networking by changing the default forward policy from accept to drop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think podman by default does do that, but it's easy to disable almost all of it, at least.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nope, I just tested and the rootful podman service doesn't touch any iptables/firewall rules.

It uses what is called a "CNI", container network interface, to manage container networking rather than just overwriting all the iptables rules like docker does.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like you were using Docker Desktop on Windows maybe? It's... pretty meh. But Docker on Linux is phenomenal. Docker on Windows is mostly just a way to make it accessible to developers stuck on Windows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Damn.

Yeah, that would make me dislike it too.