27 engineers on Hacker News describe using Podman first-hand: 9 endorse it, 8 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“it was literally as easy as installing it and pointing it at our docker-compose.yml. Zero changes needed”
endorse · production · cdmckay · 2026-07-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Initial impressions were soured by, ironically, poor out-of-the-box installation experience on Red Hat Enterprise Linux”
mixed · production · 2 yr · hackrmn · 2026-07-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“If I'm just holding it wrong and there exists some better tooling to manage podman in prod that I don't know about”
endorse · production · stryan · 2026-05-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was ready to use podman, because it worked locally. And then it failed in production. Thanks no.”
regret · production · kh_hk · 2025-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's simply amazingly solid compared to Podman on macOS (a year ago at least, I don't know if Podman has improved).”
regret · production · frje1400 · 2025-09-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Honestly I wish we would switch to putting the runners in k8s. But it works well.”
endorse · production · firesteelrain · 2025-09-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using this method on a few servers where I don't want to run Kubernetes and I really like it.”
endorse · production · lukaslalinsky · 2025-03-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am aware some folks allege $(alias docker=podman) works for them, and good for you, but that's not been my experience”
regret · personal · mdaniel · 2024-05-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This solution was born when trying to do native builds on CircleCI - where you do not have a buildx cluster”
endorse · production · zamalek · 2024-02-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using VSCode with devcontainers and podman for a couple of months now and everything seems to work fine for me.”
endorse · personal · 0.2 yr · vially · 2023-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Overall podman has been a massive regret for me”
regret · production · Arbortheus · 2022-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“running Podman or Docker on Linux is a much better experience that the simulation via VM that exists on Windows and MacOS.”
endorse · production · indymike · 2022-06-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Podman lacked some caching layer that docker was automatically orchestrating as well as parallel builds”
regret · production · kodah · 2022-02-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“CentOS Stream's last podman major version update broke 70% of my company's infrastructure”
regret · production · cue_the_strings · 2022-01-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been trying to use podman in production and it is not working very well.”
regret · production · yobert · 2021-02-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using podman a lot and I hope it becomes more commonplace.”
endorse · personal · alibarber · 2020-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At work we switched to Podman for a small deployment because Docker didn't yet work with cgroupsv2 and many hours were spent debugging Podman-specific issues.”
mixed · production · Cu3PO42 · 2020-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When we shifted to RHEL 8, we attempted to move this over to Podman and it went miserably”
regret · production · ranadeep · 2020-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using podman instead of docker more and more recently, it's pretty great.”
endorse · personal · throwaway8941 · 2019-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I primarily use OpenCode running in a podman container for actually working on stuff.”
neutral · personal · einhard · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when we switched from docker to podman I had to show ROI”
neutral · production · bandrami · 2026-06-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved to Rancher Desktop or Podman (individual choice, both are Apache licensed)”
neutral · production · dice · 2025-09-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been running this in prod self hosted for around 6 months (podman with docker compose, minio for s3, streaming with pulsar).”
neutral · production · 0.5 yr · pjp1981 · 2025-07-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Last year I wrote a 2000 line Fish script to do some Podman magic.”
neutral · personal · colonial · 2025-06-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“use docker (podman and distrobox on fedora)”
neutral · personal · robador · 2024-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had a bit trouble getting it integrated with certain versions of Podman”
neutral · personal · k1r1ka · 2023-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When Docker Desktop hit, we moved to podman.”
neutral · production · sam_lowry_ · 2023-05-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?