Re:Podman Desktop 1.2 Released: Compose and Kubernetes Support
by foobarbecue on Friday July 14, 2023 @12:08PM
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I don't think speed is a matter of your container engine (Docker vs Vagrant) but what virtual machine you are using. I usually use Docker without any virtualization since I'm running linux containers on linux. I'm guessing when you say Vagrant, your're probably using VMware or something. I don't know what Docker on mac might be using since I avoid using mac.
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Re:Podman Desktop 1.2 Released: Compose and Kubernetes Support
by chenster on Friday July 14, 2023 @12:12PM
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I guess when I mentioned slow, it uses lots of resources on parent OS. Yes, it's Virtual Box I believe.
Re:Podman Desktop 1.2 Released: Compose and Kubernetes Support
by foobarbecue on Friday July 14, 2023 @03:36PM
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Yeah, so it's Virtual Box using your resources, not Vagrant or Docker. You might want to read up a bit on how containers work -- on a unix system, assuming same cpu architechture (so you don't need a VM) and filesystem that supports overlays, containers have barely any overhead in terms of system resources. You could have a thousand containers running on your machine and be fine. VMs, on the other hand, have pretty serious overhead.