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Download the appropriate version for your operating system from https://podman-desktop.io/
Open the downloaded installer and drag the app to the Applications folder.
Run the Podman Desktop application
Performance
Mac: 3h 15minutes on a 2019 Macbook Pro. So not a direct comparison with the above numbers, but pretty suggestive that you should avoid this if at all possible. Linux performance is reportedly much better.
Other Notes
The entire experience (UI, docs, etc.) seem intended to pressure you to switch from Docker to Podman. But Podman is primarily intended to run on Fedora/Red Hat, and is apparently tricky to get working on Ubuntu (our current distribution of choice).
While it will show information about containers in the currently active Docker engine context, it doesn’t actually provide one. So to use docker, docker-compose, etc., you also need one of the tools above.
There is good support for migrating Docker images and docker-compose configurations to Podman, but this feels like a non-starter if we’re using Docker for Ubuntu-based production and Linux dev environments.
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