Use pasta’s –map-guest-addr option As of Podman 5.0 we default to “pasta” as a rootless networking application to provide network connectivity for rootless containers. Compared to our previous default, slirp4netns, pasta works a bit differently. For instance, pasta, by default, does not use Network Address Translation (NAT). This means it will copy the host address…
One of the frequent complaints I hear from users moving to Podman is about performance. I’ve always found this confusing, as the Podman team has spent significant time and effort on improving our performance, and we are quite confident that our speed is broadly comparable to Docker. Indeed, an academic paper found that Podman was…
In my personal opinion, user-namespace are one of the most brain-twisting aspects of rootless containers to understand. Arguably right up there with Kubernetes, the learning curve can be quite steep. In this article, I will attempt to reduce that slope for new Podman users (and converts), with an easy to understand analogy. Hopefully this will…
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