Chapter 2: Comparing Podman and Docker
As we learned from the previous chapter, container technology is not as new as we may think and therefore its implementation and architecture has been influenced over the years to reach its current status.
In this chapter, we’ll go through a bit of the history and the main architecture of Docker and Podman container engines, completing the picture with a side-by-side comparison to let readers with some Docker experience easily get on board and learn the main differences before going into a deep exploration of Podman.
If you don’t have much experience with Docker, you can easily jump to the next chapter and return to this one once you feel it is time to learn the differences between Podman and Docker container engines.
In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:
- Docker container daemon architecture
- Podman daemonless architecture
- The main differences between Docker and Podman ...
