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Re:Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (... by denkmoon on Monday September 06, 2021 @12:03AM (#28430107)
I think you'd be surprised how often the route from dev to prod is "copy it from my machine into the cloud".

Good practices start at home.

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Re:Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (... by eru on Monday September 06, 2021 @05:38AM (#28431980)
Well, it's also a good practice the other way round:

If you can make your dev setup model the production setup, that's one less thing to worry about.

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Re:Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (... by goodpoint on Monday September 06, 2021 @07:51AM (#28432770)
That's what VMs are for.
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Re:Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (... by eru on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @05:31AM (#28442742)
VMs are one tool for that. But they are neither necessary nor sufficient.
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Re:Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (... by nsonha on Monday September 06, 2021 @05:43AM (#28432009)
it's docker that requires root, you don't use root yourself
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Re:Podman, the open source Docker alternative ported to M1 (... by denkmoon on Monday September 06, 2021 @10:03PM (#28440054)
It's perfectly possible to use podman rootless. Presumably docker too, but I only have experience with podman. That is, the podman process does not have root privileges.

Maybe excessive, maybe a good prophylactic for potentially damaging NPM packages (for example) to not get root on my CI infrastructure.

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