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Last time I tried podman it looked very cool being rootless and daemonless, except that since it's rootless I couldn't create the necessary network interfaces... making it pretty much worthless.

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Podman 2.1 supports CNI networks (`podman network create`), so it might be worthful now

Great! I'll check it out!

So run it as root then? Am I missing something?

If GP thinks the selling point of podman is that it doesn't have to run as root, but to actually do anything meaningful they have to run it as root after all, why would they use podman?

A rootless docker would greatly simplify some use cases... For example, no need to do docker in docker.

Edit: apparently now net4slirp is recommended... Maybe I'll give it another try.

The other major benefit of podman is that it doesn't use a daemon.

Many people say that, but don't feel like it's very important.

Having a deamon or not is a technical detail that most people do not care about in my opinion. And it has advantages too, like accessing Docker remotely or from another VM on the same host, or directly from the host which is nice for Docker on Mac or Windows.

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[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25165789

These issues are because the deamon is root, not because it's a deamon.

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