I have never used Podman, but I hear about it very often. I currently use Colima (https://github.com/abiosoft/colima) and I'm very satisfied with it.

I have tried to find a good comparison between the two, but I find it hard to have a clear opinion on which one is best for me.

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cmiles74 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

I use Podman, I wanted a Docker-like experience on MacOS or Windows. I use it to provide services during development (PostgreSQL, etc.) and working on image builds. It works pretty well. :-)

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rockyj 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Colima is related but separate, Colima runs a Linux VM seamlessly in MacOS so you can interact with Docker as if it was running on your host OS. Podman will also need a VM (coz there is no native Docker on MacOS).

	▲	dizhn 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That sounded like podman needs docker. It's more of a mostly compatible separate product that does not need a daemon to run. Both probably lack things like cgroups (a Linux kernel really) etc on macos.
	▲	privatelypublic 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Podman Desktop uses a VM on windows too.(WSL2)