Podman 5.5.0 released

[Posted May 14, 2025 by jzb]

Version 5.5.0 of the Podman container-management tool has been released. Notable features include the addition of a podman machine cp command to copy files into a running Podman VM, a podman artifact extract command to copy contents of an OCI artifact to disk, and a --mount=artifact option to mount OCI artifacts into containers. See the release announcement for a full list of improvements and bug fixes.

'podman init' vs. 'docker init'

Posted May 14, 2025 20:10 UTC (Wed) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link] (2 responses)

I know that 'podman' should be a drop-in replacement for the docker cli, but I'd love to find something that actually mimics the 'batteries included' model of 'docker init'. It's nice to come into a new project and set some sane default boilerplate to frame it.

'podman init' vs. 'docker init'

Posted May 15, 2025 10:45 UTC (Thu) by zoobab (guest, #9945) [Link] (1 responses)

'docker init' gives command not found here.

I suspect it's a special feature of Docker Desktop, which is a non-free software.

'podman init' vs. 'docker init'

Posted May 15, 2025 23:25 UTC (Thu) by aphedges (subscriber, #171718) [Link]

According to docker init | Docker Docs:

Requires: Docker Desktop 4.27 and later

Although I usually use Docker Desktop (my main dev machine is a Mac), I never knew this feature even existed. I usually end up copying some files from a previous project and modify them as needed.