Enterprise Podman Security: Rootless Containers, SELinux, Backups & Docker Comparison
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Reduce attack surface using Podman's rootless daemonless model, SELinux integration & Docker comparison
  • trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 hours ago

    I’ve heard of podman quite a bit but never tried it.

    Is it truly free and open source?

    Does it run only in Linux?

    • chicuongle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      42 minutes ago

      I think that is a question about trust and time. As long as Redhat does not change their policy, YES. For an open source project is it very important if the community is big enough to defense big tech desire for money. In my opinion, Red Hat hat a very good business model to balance and in long time Podman will be free

    • Spore@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      Is it truly free and open source?

      Yes, both podman and podman-desktop are FOSS under Apache-2.0 license. And they prefer more open image hosts like quay.io by default (dockerhub is still available OOTB for it to be a drop-in replacement of docker)

      Does it run only in Linux?

      No, it runs on Linux, Windows and MacOS (through VMs on the latter two) and my experience is that it works better than docker on non-Linux machines.