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!

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    20 hours ago

    Put them in a pod and it’s just systemctl --user start <name>-pod or sudo systemctl start <name>-pod. A pod is basically a compose file, but split across multiple files instead of chunks of yaml.