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I mean, that's totally fair response. I should have provided a caveat, "historically speaking", that Docker has lacked support for rootless containers. But yes, solutions have emerged recently.

Podman out the gate has had the facility, which I think it used as a means to distinguish itself. This is great, because maybe that helped push Docker in the right direction.



Not really recently. Both were implemented almost simultaneously in circa June 2018.

https://github.com/AkihiroSuda/docker/commit/588a4e91fc8cb99... https://github.com/containers/podman/commit/19f5a504ffb14709...

Rootless Docker wasn't merged/released until Docker 19.03, though , but still it is already nearly 4 years old.


The older I get, the more it is that "4 years" ago feels like 4 days ago. You calling out my perspective of "recently" is totally fair, because to me, it feels like recently, whereas truthfully maybe not so. Thanks for the reply, I appreciate the facts.




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