Podman 6.0 rebuilt its networking stack. The thread was really about whether it can replace Compose (blog.podman.io)
The pro-Podman case in the thread was security and ergonomics: no 'container root equals host root' games, no daemon, no holes punched in your firewall. One CTO switched after Docker Desktop ballooned in memory — 'literally as easy as installing it and pointing it at our docker-compose.yml.'
The honest counterweight was portability. Podman's file-per-unit Quadlet model can't match Compose's single, readable, shareable file for team development — and getting current versions on Ubuntu without stale distro repos still, one reader argued, keeps losing Podman to Docker.
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