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Re:Minikube now supports rootless podman driver for running ... by stonemetal12 on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:14PM (#31853075)
Yes for windows and Mac it runs a Linux VM. On windows it can also use WSL2 as the linux vm.

Docker-engine is the daemon built by docker. Podman is an opensource work a like. Docker-engine doesn't support running as a user other than root. Podman does. This announcement says minikube will work with Podman running as not root.

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Re:Minikube now supports rootless podman driver for running ... by chrisjc on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:49AM (#31860962)
Thanks for clearing that up.

I remember hearing that development of docker-engine was ceasing, but could obviously live on as it was forked. I guess rootless is some of the work that Docker (company) wanted to keep proprietary and out of this open-source project.

Really quite a shame, although understandable from a commercial perspective.

Assuming that these improvements are finding their way back into an open-source project, I'm glad to hear about this work from minikube and Podman.

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Re:Minikube now supports rootless podman driver for running ... by AkihiroSuda on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:20PM (#31872254)
> I guess rootless is some of the work that Docker (company) wanted to keep proprietary and out of this open-source project.

Rootless mode for Docker is completely FLOSS, and its main contributor (me) has even never worked for Docker (company).

https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/contrib/dockerd-roo...

https://github.com/rootless-containers

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Re:Minikube now supports rootless podman driver for running ... by AkihiroSuda on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:42PM (#31872378)
> Docker-engine doesn't support running as a user other than root. Podman does.

Docker engine does.

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