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• a_t48
  If any Podman engineers are here: does the new /libpod/local/artifacts/add endpoint let me ingest individual layers? I have an alternative pull client that's currently a little hamstrung on Podman compared to docker+containerd, due to having to convert the entire image to tarball to ingest rather than only new layers.
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  SwellJoe
  No idea why Docker is still so much more popular than Podman. Podman is obviously the better implementation.The new network stuff is a welcome improvement.
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  cdmckay
  After Docker Desktop randomly started consuming insane amounts of memory again we switched to Podman and it was literally as easy as installing it and pointing it at our docker-compose.yml.Zero changes needed and now I don’t need to keep a daemon running.Great software.
• muti
  Cool, been running my home server on podman + quadlets for about two years now and picked up a couple of things in the release notes podman quadlet list Added in v5.6.0, lists quadlets and their containers podman system migrate --migrate-db Flag added in v5.8.0. I remember seeing the bolt db deprecation warnings in the past but there was no tool to do the migration to sqlite, now there is (or just upgrade to podman 6.0.0 and it will do it automatically)
• mati365
  I really love Quadlet. I used to host my rootless containers on Hetzner, Ansible, SystemD and RockyLinux for years without any issues and extracted it to template repo [1].[1] https://github.com/Mati365/hetzner-podman-bunjs-deploy
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  roger_
  Anyone have experience switching from Docker to Podman?I have a lot of compose files in my homelab/automation setup and those are what I’m most concerned about.
• himata4113
  Does anyone have experience with using podman image builds for cri runtimes other than docker?If I build an image with podman will it run in cri-o, docker and other misc runtimes?Been debating on using rootless podman for building images since docker build requires sudo and it gets annoying with agentic workflows.
• Tepix
  I like Podman, but what's up with that grey text colour? It looks ugly and the contrast of 4.96:1 makes it hard to read (does not reach WCAG AAA level).
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  PufPufPuf
  One thing I don't like about Podman is that it pretends to be docker-compatible while having some minor differences that will come to bite you. And users of your docker-based project who try to run it on Podman will come to you and complain.
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  satvikpendem
  How is Podman these days? I use OrbStack on macOS and it seems to be much faster, not sure how everything will shake out now that macOS 27 is adding (more) native and performant Linux containers, similar to WSL with micro-VMs.
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  jimmar
  Quadlets and rootless containers are two major reasons I'll be switching from Docker to Podman.
• anon
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  mjburgess
  Sanctuary! mercy from grey font
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  jdoe1337halo
  I'd love to switch to Podman but I use Coolify for all of my deployments and it is Docker based, so I am kind of locked into that ecosystem for now
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  buredoranna
  Top of my list as to why I prefer podman...no "container root" / "docker group" = "host root" shenaniganspodman doesn't spew garbage and punch holes in my firewall (iptables)(edit: formatting)
• alessandroberna
  I love the naming of their new networking tools. Now there's pesto to go along with pasta
• audidude
  Does it still completely screw up file/group owners in user containers? Because they keep saying it gets fixed and then that 1 out of 10 times it's not.
• lorbus
  single-file quadlets go
• bioninf_n_door
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