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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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