Docker vs Podman

Nick Peers examines alternatives to the big guns of virtual machines.

DOCKER | RECOMMENDED SPECS 64-bit CPU, 4GB RAM, WSL2 PRICE VMWARE WORKSTATION PLAYER | RECOMMENDED SPECS 2 physical CPU cores, 6GB RAM, WSL2. PRICE Free and open source Not everyone needs a full-blown virtual machine to run certain types of software – Docker is a lightweight alternative that uses containers to wrap up Linux applications and dependencies in a minimal environment. Readers of this magazine will have seen our many tutorials for Docker over the past few years and got a good idea of how it works. But Docker isn’t perfect – it was originally designed for development rather than production-ready use, which has led to question marks over security and stability. Luckily, in 2015, Docker created the Open Containers Initiative (OCI), which has seen several alternatives emerge that can…

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