podman desktop

anjanesh

I want to give podman a try. I am not a DevOps person.

I have Docker Desktop installed on my MacBook Air for work. I sparingly use it though except when working on a Docker-based web project with pre-defined commands given to me.
Will installing podman desktop on my laptop consume as much memory ?
I want to develop my app on my local before uploading it to an OpalStack VPS.
How do I get the app's code pulled in podman from my GitHub repo instead ? I would prefer updates via git pull origin main instead of rebuilding the podman on my local and then pushing to an OpalStack VPS.
What is the difference b/w Docker and podman, other than No root access in podman ?

podman run -d \
...
ghost:latest

From where is ghost getting downloaded from - like a docker hub is there a podman hub ?

sean

anjanesh Will installing podman desktop on my laptop consume as much memory ?

I've not used either, but anecdotally I've read that Podman Desktop uses less memory.

anjanesh How do I get the app's code pulled in podman from my GitHub repo instead ?

What type of project is it?

anjanesh What is the difference b/w Docker and podman, other than No root access in podman ?

That's the main difference: docker runs a daemon as root, while podman doesn't run a daemon and doesn't require root.

anjanesh From where is ghost getting downloaded from - like a docker hub is there a podman hub ?

Podman uses the same container format and registries as Docker.

anjanesh

sean What type of project is it?

Laravel, Django, NodeJS, Go, RoR - any kind - but I would like to update the project in my running podman just by doing a git pull origin main from my private GitHub repo - isn't this how we would want to update an app's source-code on an OpalStack VPS running a podman and then restart it, if required ?

sean

anjanesh

Clone your project repo locally if you haven't done so already.
In Podman Desktop, configure a volume pointing to your local project directory and mount it wherever the container expects it to be.