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!

  • asap@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    I run 50+ containers with rootless Podman compose (on CoreOS) and haven’t encountered any unsolvable issues so far.

    I’ve never tried quadlets but haven’t found a need or any driving reason to do so.