We are working on creating a FAQ for Podman
Here are some of the questions we have now. Q: What is Podman? Q: How is Docker different from Podman? Q: Can Podman run all container images stored at container registries like the Docker hub? Q: What does “rootless” mean? Q: What does the name “Podman” mean? Q: What is a POD? Q: What is the difference between Buildah and Podman? Q: Can I use Podman to run Kubernetes? Q: Can Podman run containers on Windows? Q: My rootless container doesn’t have an IP address; is this a bug? Q: Does Podman require containerd or CRI-O? Q: Where’s the documentation for Podman? Q: Does Podman work with Docker? Q: Can Docker and Podman be installed at the same time on a system. But we would love to hear from you on what questions you would like to have answered. Including the Answer would also be appreciated. Please fire away.
On Sat, 6 Jun 2020, Daniel Walsh wrote:
Here are some of the questions we have now.
Q: What is Podman? Q: How is Docker different from Podman? Q: Can Podman run all container images stored at container registries like the Docker hub? Q: What does “rootless” mean? Q: What does the name “Podman” mean? Q: What is a POD? Q: What is the difference between Buildah and Podman? Q: Can I use Podman to run Kubernetes? Q: Can Podman run containers on Windows? Q: My rootless container doesn’t have an IP address; is this a bug? Q: Does Podman require containerd or CRI-O? Q: Where’s the documentation for Podman? Q: Does Podman work with Docker? Q: Can Docker and Podman be installed at the same time on a system.
But we would love to hear from you on what questions you would like to have answered. Including the Answer would also be appreciated.
Please fire away.
i am reminded of the brilliant foreword to o'reilly's book on subversion, where one of the authors discusses what makes a good FAQ: "A bad Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) sheet is one that is composed not of the questions people actually ask, but of the questions the FAQ's author wishes people would ask. Perhaps you've seen the type before: Q: How can I use Glorbosoft XYZ to maximize team productivity? A: Many of our customers want to know how they can maximize productivity through our patented office groupware innovations. The answer is simple. First, click on the File menu, scroll down to Increase Productivity, then… "The problem with such FAQs is that they are not, in a literal sense, FAQs at all. No one ever called the tech support line and asked, “How can we maximize productivity?” Rather, people asked highly specific questions, such as “How can we change the calendaring system to send reminders two days in advance instead of one?” and so on. But it's a lot easier to make up imaginary Frequently Asked Questions than it is to discover the real ones. Compiling a true FAQ sheet requires a sustained, organized effort: over the lifetime of the software, incoming questions must be tracked, responses monitored, and all gathered into a coherent, searchable whole that reflects the collective experience of users in the wild. It calls for the patient, observant attitude of a field naturalist. No grand hypothesizing, no visionary pronouncements here—open eyes and accurate note-taking are what's needed most." it strikes me that some of the questions above sort of fall into that camp. i would think many of them should be addressed in a "getting started" guide which introduces the tools, leaving the FAQ for much more specific issues that people run into. either that, or clearly mark the first part of the FAQ as "general knowledge", something like that. rday
Thanks for the foreword. Very interesting. I also think that an author-produced FAQ and a "sampled from real-world" FAQ can be quite different. Another thing: The most popular at Stackoverflow is: There is any “Podman Compose”? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/podman?tab=Votes On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 1:23 PM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
On Sat, 6 Jun 2020, Daniel Walsh wrote:
Here are some of the questions we have now.
Q: What is Podman? Q: How is Docker different from Podman? Q: Can Podman run all container images stored at container registries like the Docker hub? Q: What does “rootless” mean? Q: What does the name “Podman” mean? Q: What is a POD? Q: What is the difference between Buildah and Podman? Q: Can I use Podman to run Kubernetes? Q: Can Podman run containers on Windows? Q: My rootless container doesn’t have an IP address; is this a bug? Q: Does Podman require containerd or CRI-O? Q: Where’s the documentation for Podman? Q: Does Podman work with Docker? Q: Can Docker and Podman be installed at the same time on a system.
But we would love to hear from you on what questions you would like to have answered. Including the Answer would also be appreciated.
Please fire away.
i am reminded of the brilliant foreword to o'reilly's book on subversion, where one of the authors discusses what makes a good FAQ:
"A bad Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) sheet is one that is composed not of the questions people actually ask, but of the questions the FAQ's author wishes people would ask. Perhaps you've seen the type before:
Q: How can I use Glorbosoft XYZ to maximize team productivity?
A: Many of our customers want to know how they can maximize productivity through our patented office groupware innovations. The answer is simple. First, click on the File menu, scroll down to Increase Productivity, then…
"The problem with such FAQs is that they are not, in a literal sense, FAQs at all. No one ever called the tech support line and asked, “How can we maximize productivity?” Rather, people asked highly specific questions, such as “How can we change the calendaring system to send reminders two days in advance instead of one?” and so on. But it's a lot easier to make up imaginary Frequently Asked Questions than it is to discover the real ones. Compiling a true FAQ sheet requires a sustained, organized effort: over the lifetime of the software, incoming questions must be tracked, responses monitored, and all gathered into a coherent, searchable whole that reflects the collective experience of users in the wild. It calls for the patient, observant attitude of a field naturalist. No grand hypothesizing, no visionary pronouncements here—open eyes and accurate note-taking are what's needed most."
it strikes me that some of the questions above sort of fall into that camp. i would think many of them should be addressed in a "getting started" guide which introduces the tools, leaving the FAQ for much more specific issues that people run into.
either that, or clearly mark the first part of the FAQ as "general knowledge", something like that.
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Thanks for sharing that StackOverflow list. I must admit, I hadn't thought to use that as a source. Brilliant in it's simplicity! Quite useful to me as a Product Manager too :-) On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 11:12 AM Erik Sjölund <erik.sjolund@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the foreword. Very interesting. I also think that an author-produced FAQ and a "sampled from real-world" FAQ can be quite different. Another thing: The most popular at Stackoverflow is: There is any “Podman Compose”? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/podman?tab=Votes
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 1:23 PM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
On Sat, 6 Jun 2020, Daniel Walsh wrote:
Here are some of the questions we have now.
Q: What is Podman? Q: How is Docker different from Podman? Q: Can Podman run all container images stored at container registries like the Docker hub? Q: What does “rootless” mean? Q: What does the name “Podman” mean? Q: What is a POD? Q: What is the difference between Buildah and Podman? Q: Can I use Podman to run Kubernetes? Q: Can Podman run containers on Windows? Q: My rootless container doesn’t have an IP address; is this a bug? Q: Does Podman require containerd or CRI-O? Q: Where’s the documentation for Podman? Q: Does Podman work with Docker? Q: Can Docker and Podman be installed at the same time on a system.
But we would love to hear from you on what questions you would like to have answered. Including the Answer would also be appreciated.
Please fire away.
i am reminded of the brilliant foreword to o'reilly's book on subversion, where one of the authors discusses what makes a good FAQ:
"A bad Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) sheet is one that is composed not of the questions people actually ask, but of the questions the FAQ's author wishes people would ask. Perhaps you've seen the type before:
Q: How can I use Glorbosoft XYZ to maximize team productivity?
A: Many of our customers want to know how they can maximize productivity through our patented office groupware innovations. The answer is simple. First, click on the File menu, scroll down to Increase Productivity, then…
"The problem with such FAQs is that they are not, in a literal sense, FAQs at all. No one ever called the tech support line and asked, “How can we maximize productivity?” Rather, people asked highly specific questions, such as “How can we change the calendaring system to send reminders two days in advance instead of one?” and so on. But it's a lot easier to make up imaginary Frequently Asked Questions than it is to discover the real ones. Compiling a true FAQ sheet requires a sustained, organized effort: over the lifetime of the software, incoming questions must be tracked, responses monitored, and all gathered into a coherent, searchable whole that reflects the collective experience of users in the wild. It calls for the patient, observant attitude of a field naturalist. No grand hypothesizing, no visionary pronouncements here—open eyes and accurate note-taking are what's needed most."
it strikes me that some of the questions above sort of fall into that camp. i would think many of them should be addressed in a "getting started" guide which introduces the tools, leaving the FAQ for much more specific issues that people run into.
either that, or clearly mark the first part of the FAQ as "general knowledge", something like that.
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On Sat, 6 Jun 2020, Daniel Walsh wrote:
Here are some of the questions we have now.
Q: What is Podman? Q: How is Docker different from Podman? Q: Can Podman run all container images stored at container registries like the Docker hub? Q: What does “rootless” mean? Q: What does the name “Podman” mean? Q: What is a POD? Q: What is the difference between Buildah and Podman? Q: Can I use Podman to run Kubernetes? Q: Can Podman run containers on Windows? Q: My rootless container doesn’t have an IP address; is this a bug? Q: Does Podman require containerd or CRI-O? Q: Where’s the documentation for Podman? Q: Does Podman work with Docker? Q: Can Docker and Podman be installed at the same time on a system.
But we would love to hear from you on what questions you would like to have answered. Including the Answer would also be appreciated.
i'm betting a bunch of people would like to know, "how easy is it to download and build the source for myself?" rday
On Sat, 6 Jun 2020, Daniel Walsh wrote:
Here are some of the questions we have now.
Q: What is Podman? Q: How is Docker different from Podman? Q: Can Podman run all container images stored at container registries like the Docker hub? Q: What does “rootless” mean? Q: What does the name “Podman” mean? Q: What is a POD? Q: What is the difference between Buildah and Podman? Q: Can I use Podman to run Kubernetes? Q: Can Podman run containers on Windows? Q: My rootless container doesn’t have an IP address; is this a bug? Q: Does Podman require containerd or CRI-O? Q: Where’s the documentation for Podman? Q: Does Podman work with Docker? Q: Can Docker and Podman be installed at the same time on a system.
hilariously, my GF (who is a senior analyst for forrester research) heard me muttering about FAQs, and sent me this: https://blog.canada.ca/2020/05/25/avoiding-faqs.html haven't read it yet, just starting ... rday
Hi, all from what I see in DevOps chats and channels, the most popular question is "Is podman production-ready? Where can we see the benchmarks"? The second is "How do I run a docker-compose file with podman? Existing podman-compose didn't work" Thanks On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 1:57 PM Daniel Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> wrote:
Here are some of the questions we have now.
Q: What is Podman? Q: How is Docker different from Podman? Q: Can Podman run all container images stored at container registries like the Docker hub? Q: What does “rootless” mean? Q: What does the name “Podman” mean? Q: What is a POD? Q: What is the difference between Buildah and Podman? Q: Can I use Podman to run Kubernetes? Q: Can Podman run containers on Windows? Q: My rootless container doesn’t have an IP address; is this a bug? Q: Does Podman require containerd or CRI-O? Q: Where’s the documentation for Podman? Q: Does Podman work with Docker? Q: Can Docker and Podman be installed at the same time on a system.
But we would love to hear from you on what questions you would like to have answered. Including the Answer would also be appreciated.
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