Requiring a daemon with root privileges is another big reason to explore alternatives to docker.
Have you looked at podman? You can do daemon-less, user run containers.
I've heard of podman and buildah, but honestly I haven't looked too closely into it. They do sound like Docker done right.
I don't get it. I'm not using docker just to run containers. I'm also using it to build images. Therefore having more container runtimes doesn't actually allow me to switch away from docker.
This doesn't have anything to do with Docker, but specifically docker-compose. What are the alternatives you suggest to that? Minikube?
Yeah, I like Kubernetes. But I’ll admit it’s not exactly the most inviting thing to get into. It’s cool once you get the hang of it.
But the attitude runs all the way through docker products: arbitrary decisions made for their benefit with no thought to the externalities.
garden.io is what we're replacing docker-compose with.