Ridding yourself of demons – err um – daemons, with Podman
Docker and Podman are both tools that aim to make it easier to run and manage containers on a host machine. Since Podman is the new kid on the block, you may be wondering how you can switch from Docker to Podman. While technically it is possible to run both Docker and Podman together on the same system, there are very few practical reasons to do this. Since both tools provide the same core capabilities, I would advise you to choose one or the other.
One of the key benefits of switching to Podman is you will inherently lose the daemon that lurked behind the scenes of Docker. You see, Docker relies on a daemon that does all the heavy lifting of managing containers. This may not seem so bad on the surface, but there are some things to be aware of when it comes to this architecture.
For starters, having an extra daemon running in the background means there is one more point of failure. If that dedicated daemon...