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It is! At least 99%, in my experience. The one big difference is that Podman is "daemonless", which is actually a huge advantage in a lot of cases. The one downside is that it won't automatically restart your containers if your host machine reboots.

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For that Podman provides a nifty little trick: `podman generate systemd`[0] which allows you to generate systemd unit files for your pods and/or containers.

Once generated and enabled, your pods/containers act as systemd services that can be started, stopped etc.

[0]: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-generate-sy...

Yup. I use this for all my home server services like Plex, Adguard, etc.

I reboot my machine after kernel updates and everything comes up flawlessly.

This is no longer necessary as of Podman 3.3 or so--there's a single Podman systemd unit that will launch all containers that have restart=always.

Interesting! Do you have by any chance a link the documentation about it, because so far all I could find are links to information about `podman generate systemd`.

That's awesome, I didn't know about that.

Looks like the service is called podman-restart.service on my system.

This generator has even better systemd integration: https://github.com/containers/quadlet

I want to mention the "-userns=keep-id" option of podman, which is a reason enough to use podman rather than docker on a Linux laptop.

The "podman.service" systemd unit takes care of restarting containers that were marked so.

correction: podman-restart.service

The biggest drawback for me is that podman cannot build containers.

Huh? I use `podman build` all the time. Sure, it uses `buildah` in the backend, but does that really matter?

On Mac OS at least there is a bunch of hoops you have to jump through for build to work at all. If I recall you needed virtualbox installed (which I don't want). With docker it just works, you install docker you can run docker build, no extra troubleshooting, or hacky workarounds, just so you can use basic functionality.

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