Why “Podman” is being discussed
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Dev-sandbox – One bash script to isolate AI coding agents with Podman
by tomazko · Sep 1, 2026 · 2 points
This is exactly what I do - I run my agent inside an isolated podman container and mount the workspaces on a shared volume.
by dafelst · Aug 31, 2026
For me the problems are always when I pull some image (like GitLab) and try to get it to work with podman. Or the hoops you have to jump through with podman-compose (user linger…
by teekert · Aug 31, 2026
I don't use Podman desktop but I haven't had any issues at all with basic Podman. It just seems like a better overall design. It would be great if Docker copied the rootless &#x…
by osigurdson · Aug 31, 2026
More like a company that had hundreds of millions of dollars and a couple decades should have fixed it by now. If only Podman could beat Docker in advertising…
by BobbyTables2 · Aug 31, 2026
You're making a big assumption about how other people use their computers. If you're running mostly desktop applications on Linux, you wouldn't use sudo much either. And if anyt…
by jasomill · Aug 31, 2026
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Podman is an open source Open Container Initiative (OCI)-compliant container management tool created by Red Hat used for handling containers, images, volumes, and pods on the Linux operating system, with support for macOS and Microsoft Windows via a virtual machine. Based on the libpod library, it offers APIs for the lifecycle management of containers, pods, images, and volumes. The API is identical to the Docker API. Podman Desktop provides an alternative to Docker Desktop. Read more on Wikipedia