The main benefits touted are that Podman can run rootless containers and it doesn’t need a daemon compared to Docker. However those comparisons are less relevant now than they were a while ago because Docker can now run rootless containers and Podman has developed a heap of systemd hooks that effectively use that as the daemon. It does have some good features though, like being compatible with Kubernetes manifests.

If you’re happy with portainer and Docker I wouldn’t bother migrating.

Is there a portainer equivalent for podman (web based instead of a desktop app)?

You can use the podman module that is part of cockpit-project. It runs on different versions of linux and you can also expose this from a remote machine or VM.

It has a different aim, more of an admin view. I do use it regularly and would gladly take questions for the team. At some point we integrated this as a temporary solution for CRC to provide a container management view.

https://cockpit-project.org/

As an example https://www.tutorialworks.com/podman-monitoring-cockpit-fedo...

If you have suggestions to improve just let me know. I work closely with that team. And they gladly take feature requests or comments

> Podman has developed a heap of systemd hooks that effectively use that as the daemon.

Does that mean Podman is not technically ... rootless?

It can still be rootless by using systemd —-user which allows non privileged users to create units and such.

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