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Podman will prompt you asking which repository you would like to pull an image from.

There is a small amount of configuration and overhead required to do this but won’t be covered here

Podman being daemonless adds additional security but it means containers will not automatically get restarted when the host machine restarts.

Podman is not fully compatible with Docker Swarm.

Not a big issue for Developers but there is no UI.

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This means you will need to manually manage and patch the OS yourself This is facilitated by the Windows Subsystem for Linux or WSL. Podman on Windows requires a Unix kernel.So here is a list of some of the known disadvantages I could think of if you go down the Podman route: However, I am quick to realise that not all businesses will wish to make this investment. For most, paying the licensing fee is more than likely worth it. Furthermore, there are few, if any products, like Docker Desktop out there that provide such simple and seamless integration into many Developer tools. Podman may not solve all of your problems compared to Docker without a bit of work. Podman is OCI compliant and so images built and shared between Docker and Podman are fully compatible Podman works directly with DockerFiles.Not really a benefit compared to Docker Desktop but using Podman with the WSL seems much easier than setting up the Docker CLI alongside Windows.For many using Podman just for development purposes can be a good fit There are no licensing costs associated to using Podman.

Podman is an even lighter tool compared to Docker by nature due to being daemonless.I can run a container all self-contained within my user namespace This allows Podman to run containers in a more secure fashion without root or escalated privileges. Here are some of the key benefits of using Podman over Docker:

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This article will discuss how to set-up Podman as a drop-in replacement for Docker Desktop without having to remember a single new command in the command line. I found Podman to be a relatively simple replacement for Docker and thought a simple step by step procedure was worth documenting.

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While the Docker CLI is still free for everyone to use, this may be more troublesome to set-up on a windows environment without Docker Desktop. If not, please do read more about it here. For those of you reading this, you are all probably familiar with Docker’s recent licensing changes to Docker Desktop. Thanks to Docker open sourcing both their image specification and Docker Engine back in 2015, technologies like Podman have been able to containerise applications in a consistent yet compatible manner without too many troubles. Podman is an open-source daemonless alternative to Docker, capable of building and running Open Container Initiative (OCI) containers on Unix.