---
title: "Podman vs Docker: What are the differences?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/podman-vs-docker-what-are-the-differences--vfknmoj6f
source_url: https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/podman-vs-docker/
type: article
source: "Community Picks"
published: 2022-07-22T22:56:23.096Z
updated: 2023-12-07T12:02:45.284Z
tags: ["kubernetes", "containers", "docker"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 98
comments: 7
language: en
---

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# Podman vs Docker: What are the differences?

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 6 min read · 98 upvotes · 7 comments

## Summary

Podman is a Red Hat product designed to build, manage, and run containers with a Kubernetes-like approach. Docker is the standard containerization tool for almost a decade. The two technologies have fundamental differences but are also perfectly suited to work together. Podman is the default container engine in RedHat 8 and CentOS 8.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@leowo** · 3 upvotes

> In my company we use podman since January when  they decided to require a subscription for large business. We replaced Docker entirety and it is being smooth so far.

**@rakibhridoy** · 1 upvotes

> @hvk500 Awesome content. I will recommend it to my friend also.

**@rurickdev** · 0 upvotes

> I'm planing on migrate all my docker stack for podman on my homelab, just need to know the best replaces for portainer and automatic backups, when I get that I definitely will do the move

**@ozkanpakdil** · 0 upvotes

> I feel like podman is better than docker so far, but this is totally feeling, I wish there were some benchmarks to see numbers and decide 🤓

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