Podman Desktop 1.6 released: Even more Kubernetes and Containers features

Does anyone have resources or advice for someone interested in podman as a replacement for docker-compose? There is a lot I like about podman but my previous exposure to kubernetes felt extremely complicated for my use cases.<p>Most of the time my docker-compose projects only need to run on one or two machines without much horizontal scaling or fault tolerance and portability&#x2F;ease of spin-up are more important than high 9s edge cases.<p>If that&#x27;s my use case should I just stick with docker-compose, or does podman simplify kubernetes config enough that its worth considering the switch? I&#x27;d like the flexibility of being able to deploy to a k8s cluster if the cost is cheap in terms of mental overhead and how easy it is for another developer to pick up and run with.

I like to develop with VS Code and devcontainers. I&#x27;ve never been able to get that setup to work with podman as the backend. Has anyone successfully done this or perhaps know of a blog detailing how to accomplish this that I haven&#x27;t been able to find?

Just recently set up Podman Desktop on Mac for work (on my old computer, I&#x27;d used Rancher Desktop on Windows).<p>Getting everything installed was a little bit annoying, since I use a nonstandard Homebrew prefix, and Homebrew doesn&#x27;t currently provide a &#x27;cask&#x27; for the pre-built Podman binaries. That means that `brew install --cask podman-desktop` requires building a bunch of things from source for me. But writing one wasn&#x27;t hard, and the install process was good after that.<p>One issue I seem to have consistently though is that the VM `podman machine` uses hangs. I haven&#x27;t investigated it, but I think it might hang every time my laptop sleeps, because it&#x27;s most often hung when I come back to my computer in the mornings, and that seems so damn near every time.<p>Anyone else have this problem on macOS?

I&#x27;m a very happy podman user. It works really well to run amd64 containers on aarm64 thanks to qemu and it also has great modern features like rootless.

I might look at switching our users over to Podman, considerably less bloat than Docker Desktop. Installing Docker Desktop is a PITA via MDM as it requires the user to have admin rights on first launch (unless they follow additional steps)

I did not realize a Flatpak exists (apparently for several years): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flathub.org&#x2F;apps&#x2F;io.podman_desktop.PodmanDesktop" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flathub.org&#x2F;apps&#x2F;io.podman_desktop.PodmanDesktop</a><p>It&#x27;s an electron app, so if you&#x27;re on Wayland executing like this will make it look decent: flatpak run io.podman_desktop.PodmanDesktop --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland (after also enabling the wayland socket permission).

Podman is still considered experimental with KinD clusters.<p>I wish more efforts were spent getting better integration with KinD clusters as they&#x27;re much easier to spinup and work with.

IIRC, on windows, podman(+ docker) desktop create a Linux HyperV VM, and run the containers on that.<p>As a Linux native dropped into Windows, I&#x27;ve already been able to bring up docker, podman, k8s, and anything else in linux with more control over the linux VM I&#x27;ve created.<p>What does the &#x27;Desktop&#x27; version of docker or podman bring to windows, that I don&#x27;t already have by shelling into my on-device VM and using docker&#x2F;podman tools directly?

Does it support working with a custom default system connection yet? I use podman in parallels because I get way better performance than with the qemu podman machine but podman desktop hasn’t worked with it so I stick to the cli which works seamlessly.

I can&#x27;t find what the underlying OS is on the website, how do you know what version it is&#x2F;how is the underlying OS updated?

How does OrbStack compare; anyone tried it yet?<p>The website makes some big claims.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orbstack.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orbstack.dev&#x2F;</a><p>EDIT: why the downvotes?

I just read Podman, went on the website, saw the brew install command, opened the app and noticed it&#x27;s not a podcast client.