Comment by cdmckay
4 days ago
After Docker Desktop randomly started consuming insane amounts of memory again we switched to Podman and it was literally as easy as installing it and pointing it at our docker-compose.yml.
Zero changes needed and now I don’t need to keep a daemon running.
Great software.
I liked Orbstack better than colima which was better than Docker Desktop. Then I found https://smolmachines.com's smolvm microvms.
Fixed link: https://smolmachines.com/
thanks!
Since I came across orbstack that's the only one I use for docker on macOS
been using orbstack but this smol stuff is interesting
is this firecracker or total rewrite
author of smol machines here, it has no relation to firecracker.
It runs ontop of the libkrun vmm forked with optimizations, which is the underlying lib powering podman as well.
open source, will contribute upstream when possible: https://github.com/smol-machines/libkrun
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Can smolmachines run devcontainers? K3d?
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don't forget `alias docker='podman'` for muscle memory
It's been a couple months so I forget what problems I ran into, but Docker's AI bullshit pushed me over the edge and I tried switching to Podman. I ran into some compatibility issues. Alas I don't recall the details.
So I tried Rancher Desktop and other than I keep forgetting its name it just worked.
It's another simple option for those who need it.