↳ In-reply-to » My proof-of-concept Container as a Service (CAS or CaaS) is now up and running. If anyone wants to have a play? 🤔 There's still heaps to do, lots of "features" missing, but you can run stuff at least 😅

Also, just as an aside, your assertion that Docker is too “fat” and too “corporate” is untrue IMO. I’ve been using Docker for a very long time (since ~0.7 or so) and if you take a closer look:

root@proxy:~# ls -lah /usr/bin/docker /usr/bin/dockerd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35M Jul 21 20:35 /usr/bin/docker
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 96M Jul 21 20:35 /usr/bin/dockerd
root@proxy:~#

Compared with Podman:

$ ls -lah /opt/homebrew/Cellar/podman/4.6.0/bin/podman-remote
-r-xr-xr-x 1 prologic admin 39M Jul 21 06:13 /opt/homebrew/Cellar/podman/4.6.0/bin/podman-remote

As you can see the Docker docker client (CLI) and the Podman tool is roughly the same “weight”.

The difference is that Docker is a Server<->Client with a daemon architecture, whereas Podman runs containers directly, which is why only Linux is supported. Podman is a bit like my box project.