I Ditched Docker for Podman (and You Should Too)
Photo by Martin Wettstein on UnsplashWhy I Ditched Docker for Podman (And You Should Too)Dominik Szymański·Sep 4, 2025·10 min readBeginnings I’m old enough to remember when Vagrant looked like a promised land where every development environment would look the same. Differences between language versions, as well as some unusual OS version differences, resulted in a few days of unproductive debugging of your development environment. I’ve had similar excitement when I started my first Docker Swarm (who uses that these days?!) – it felt revolutionary. Docker wasn’t just a tool – it fundamentally changed how we thought about application development and deployment. Having a repeatable, separated environment from your local system was refreshing and looked like a superpower. It has become a…
