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Podman Desktop 1.2 Released: Compose and Kubernetes Support

by twelvenmonkeys on 7/14/23, 1:09 PM with 125 comments

  • by jadbox on 7/14/23, 2:15 PM

    I'm very happy to see you better support for docker compose. I think about 50% of the time I find Kubernetes used in production/development when it could have just used Compose along with a simple Terraform or Pulumi deploy script.
  • by imiric on 7/14/23, 4:18 PM

    I wish Podman wouldn't be a Docker replica, but a standalone product that competes in the container ecosystem with innovative features.

    Initially the main advantage it had over Docker was rootless mode, but this has been available in Docker for a while now. What currently sets Podman (Desktop/Compose) apart from its Docker counterparts?

    I've also run into issues running some containers with Podman that work fine with Docker. I still use it for some simple use cases, but I'm wondering more why bother with a copycat product that only plays catch-up to Docker, and has its own set of issues. And, incidentally, is run by Red Hat, and by extension IBM, which are increasingly hostile to OSS.

  • by tempodox on 7/14/23, 4:44 PM

    Just happened on macOS, with this new release:

    > Podman Desktop quit unexpectedly.

    I was about to ask whether it works on macOS yet. I guess I've got my answer.

  • by SOLAR_FIELDS on 7/14/23, 2:08 PM

    Forgive my naïveté regarding Podman. On macOS, does this use the same virtualization approach that docker desktop uses?
  • by ducharmdev on 7/14/23, 6:57 PM

    At work I was initially using podman on an M1 MacBook, but switched to Rancher Desktop + dockerd a couple months ago after having too many issues with podman. Many in my org are also moving away from podman for similar reasons.

    I could never get bind mounts working consistently, relying instead on volumes, which are more awkward/less explicit when persisting local DBs used when testing.

    I've had zero problems with Rancher Desktop + dockerd - definitely recommend it for M1 users that are having issues with podman.

  • by nightowl_games on 7/14/23, 5:49 PM

    To all the people pointing out that docker compose doesn't scale, I use docker compose locally in a vs code dev container and then k8s on production. Running k8s locally seems too complex, maybe it's not so bad but I'm happy with using docker compose dev container for development
  • by hackandthink on 7/14/23, 9:08 PM

    I'm not happy with Podman Desktop's Svelte GUI.

    Antd or MUI (React) feel much more mature.

    But they are working on it.

    https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/pull/2863

  • by joaoqalves on 7/14/23, 2:14 PM

    What's missing to fully replace Docker Desktop?
  • by andix on 7/14/23, 4:25 PM

    Is it usable on windows now? I constantly had issues previously both with Podman desktop and also rancher desktop. Docker socket not reachable, something stuck, and needed to reset the installation constantly. Docker desktop works quote stable.
  • by chenster on 7/14/23, 4:02 PM

    Do people still use Vagrant? Last time I tried Docker on Mac, it was painfully slow. So I kept using Vagrant, which used more disc space, but very fast, and the Intel Macbook pro fan never kicked in once like Docker did.
  • by throwaway106382 on 7/14/23, 3:54 PM

    Is there a way to make Podman Desktop use the default system connection rather than the default podman machine?

    When I do `podman ps` my client connects to my development VM that is not managed by podman, but I can't seem to find a way to make Podman Desktop do that.

  • by 0xbadcafebee on 7/14/23, 3:26 PM

    Why does Compose still only work on one server? I am perpetually perplexed that nobody has patched Compose to manage k8s resources, have its own multi-node support, or push Swarm more. How has nobody fixed this? The tool is 9 years old.