Podman

Podman is a drop-in replacement for Docker. I chose it because Justus suggested me to look into it while I was interviewing him for the DWeb blog, and other friends encouraged me to try it in multiple occasions. By learning more about it, I found its advantages and its architecture to be very interesting, while remaining relatively simple, and (to the extent of my usage so far) completely compatible with Docker commands. I watched different videos (linked at the bottom of this page) Rootless Podman configuration Following the official rootless tutorial: sudo apt install passt # apparently it is already installed as a dependency of podman’s apt package In Linux, unprivileged users (non-sudo) do not have permission to open up ports below 1024. In order to allow ports ≥80 to be opened in rootless mode, a systemd parameter has to be set. echo 'net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start=80' | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/99-rootless-ports.conf sudo sysctl --system Automatically start containers at boot…