On Mon, 25 Oct 2021, Valentin Rothberg wrote:
Hi Robert,
Podman has been in the main repositories of Ubuntu since 20.10 (and Debian 11). I think that is a clear commitment from the community to support Podman (and Buildah) as best as we can.
If users require enterprise-level support and stability, I would always recommend using an enterprise distribution such as RHEL. When it comes to community distributions, I think that Fedora has the advantage that it is backed by Red Hat, and as Chris has mentioned earlier, there is a lot of QA going on and a considerable amount of engineering power and expertise behind.
But we really don't make a difference upstream; we treat all issues the same, independent if they happen on Ubuntu or Fedora or Arch. The vast majority of issues are distribution independent in any case and that, in fact, is what I consider the beauty of open source: all benefit by working together.
That being said, I would totally recommend using Podman on Ubuntu. If there is a bug, we'll fix it upstream and then it's up to the maintainers of the individual distributions to either backport or jump to the next release of Podman.
great, that makes me cautiously optimistic. this will probably wait until deadlines ease up in late december, and i dive into setting all this up on ubuntu 21.10. there will probably be questions. rday