Podman/Minikube/CRI-O as Docker Desktop alternative

Important

Deprecated in favour of devonfw-forge/rd-installer.

You are a few steps far from moving away from Docker Desktop to a much powerful free alternative, which will enable you to introduce Kubernetes in your development environment if desired, or continue working as normal with plain Docker-like containers.

If you are new to containers or you are not already familiar with Docker, we encourage you to take some courses (like this one) or research on the web about Docker, which has been the most spread solution so far for containerization.

Table of Contents:

• Installation

• Using Podman and Minikube

  • Minikube

  • How to use Podman

  • podman-compose

  • Differences with Docker

  • Using Podman with a VPN

  • Updating the scripts

  • Uninstall

  • Changing the memory settings of Minikube VM

  • Further documentation

• Known issues

  • Installation issues

  • Post-install issues