From what I have seen, rootless podman seems to take more effort (even if marginal) than rootful one. I want to make a more informed decision for the containers, so I would like to ask.

  1. What is a rootless podman good for? How much does it help in terms of security, and does it have other benefits?
  2. One of the benefits commonly mentioned is for when container is breached. Then, running container on sudo-capable user would give no security benefits. Does it mean I should run podman services on a non-privileged user?

Thank you!

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 hours ago

    Needing to deal with the services for startup for every single compose stack seems like such a pain to me, that’s one of the big reasons I haven’t switched.

    • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu
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      5 hours ago

      Nothing stops you to run them all from the same unprivileged user and start them all at once with a single command.

      Set once and forget style.