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Switch from docker to podman

It would be an enhancement to say goodbye to docker, and welcome podman

Pros:

  • Technical reasons
    • containers can be run as a non-root user 1
    • no single daemon
    • better integrates with already-existing linux parts
    • mostly compatible with docker
  • Roundabout reasons:
    • Although one of the requirements for self-hosting ecloud is Ubuntu, that is an overly strict one - I managed 2 to install the server on openSUSE Leap 15.1, and I reckon there are others who have similar distate for deb-based distros.
      And RedHat just removed non-enterprise docker from its repos, so we cannot recommend /e/ self-hosting to Fedora/RHEL/etc userbase.
    • Recent acquisition and continuous investor hunting of Docker company is a bit concerning.

Cons:

  • systemd unit files probably must be written, as podman unit file generator is not good enough

  1. port handling has some issues in case when run as non-root ↩

  2. well, almost, nextcloud and onlyoffice container needs some fixing ↩

Edited by Krisztián Szegi

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