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Or the new competition will force Docker Inc to invest in Dockerhub features again.

Including the free tier, if they want to keep their "world's largest library and community for container images" status. But free tiers cost money.

With RedHat going after Docker itself with their daemonless version of Docker, podman, and docker-ce's lack of cgroupsv2 support, Docker Enterprise having to compete with K8S, and there being multiple entrenched container registry companies (eg Quay) it must be tough at Docker Inc.

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> With RedHat going after Docker itself with their daemonless version of Docker, podman

Nobody cares about Podman except Red Hat and their most loyal fans. I'd be surprised if podman has managed to steal more than 1% of Docker's install base.

> docker-ce's lack of cgroupsv2 support

containerd supports cgroupsv2. Docker CE is based on containerd. If the current release doesn't have it, the next release will.

> Docker Enterprise having to compete with K8S

Docker Enterprise includes a K8S distribution. Does it compete with itself?

> multiple entrenched container registry companies (eg Quay)

Quay is not a company. It is a CoreOS (now Red Hat) product.

> it must be tough at Docker Inc.

I believe that's true. Just not for any of the reasons you have given.

> Nobody cares about Podman except Red Hat and their most loyal fans. I'd be surprised if podman has managed to steal more than 1% of Docker's install base.

This seems dismissive. Podman has many neat features that docker doesn't (pods) or were added later (rootless containers).

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/01/29/podman-kuberne...

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/01/15/podman-managin...

Obviously, you can use kompose and docker-compose but I would argue podman has better experience.

I'm not dismissing how good it is, just how popular it is. Definitely not popular enough to threaten Docker's adoption, not even close. Docker does have problems, but Podman is not one of them.

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