Hopefully, podman can solve "basic dcoker desktop" needs for most companies.
Docker has no moat.
They just want an easy installer that lets them "run docker containers" and they don't want to even think about a Linux VM. Even many developers can't be bothered to deal with this stuff and just want some easy abstraction. This is where Docker Desktop has value and why some people will continue paying for it.
That’s probably the most noxious business model ever. I’ve dealt with 5-6 companies doing that, and whenever renewal/retention is a different sales organization, i spin up a company project to plan the exit strategy.
The nickel and dime cost stuff is one thing, but the bigger problem is that these companies and products always decline.
If you spend a million dollars a year on a contract, you will typically have someone you know by name and meet with regularly who will legitimately hear your feedback and work to resolve your problems.
Customer support will file a ticket for me when something isn't working. Maybe help if something on their script matches existing known issues. Customer success will proactively see that I'm not getting the expected value from my already committed spending and utilization and reach out to make sure everything is configured right so that I renew next year.
Of course there are also organizational differences, Podman seems to be more of a community led open-source project whereas Rancher is ultimately trying to sell enterprise kubernetes management software.
In my experience, k3s looks great on the surface but I ran into quite a few issues operating it in a single-node use case.
If I was looking into this today, I'd definitely explore Podman/Kind instead.
The main rationale for using Rancher is that the CLI is the same as Docker. No modification to any script was needed.
Podman might be better, I can't say, but for what I use it for it doesn't really matter.
https://ubuntu.com/blog/replacing-docker-desktop-on-windows-...
It runs on windows too.
it is only Docker Desktop which is no longer free.
most power users do not use or need Docker Desktop.
I mean I use Windows too (my laptop has poor Linux support, plus Proton wasn't a thing when I bought it so I went for something which is guaranteed to run games well). But I do all my development in a Linux VM in Virtualbox. If you have an SSD, performance is indistinguishable from native.
In my experience this is very much not the case. Running a graphical linux desktop in a VM on beefy hardware still introduces noticeable keypress latency for me, as an example.
Seems like they can afford it.
But I think a charity could fall under the 3rd one here.
"Examples of freely permitted usage include:
Personal projects with less than $10 million revenue per year Students and teachers (whether in an educational or professional setting) Research at not-for-profit institutions Personal contributions to non-commercial open source projects"
what is this, the world's most overstaffed lemonade stand?
250 employees earning the median US wage is 11 million per year to the employee before all sorts of overhead so more like 20 million in wages per year.
AR == Argentinian Peso
542k ARS == $1600 USD
So I guess I’ll ask some questions:
1) Is the Argentinian software labor pool large and organized enough to be accessible to international firms?
2) Is this the average wage of a software developer in Argentina? Or some larger group?
3) Why is this relevant in this discussion?
There is a point that offshore contractors getting access to such software represents a ... larger proportion of compensation, especially among the several such SaaS per-user fees most tech companies will pay.
But there's also a counterpoint... docker wants somewhere between $5 and $30 US dollars per month per user, yes this is annoying because the value doesn't seem to be there for docker desktop which is all most people want anyway... on the other hand it's not such a moral issue... it's not much money at all.
Nope, ISO 4217 says it's ARS.
AR is the ISO 3166 contry code for Argentina.
> 1) Is the Argentinian software labor pool large and organized enough to be accessible to international firms?
Yes?
> 2) Is this the average wage of a software developer in Argentina? Or some larger group?
Average wage of Argentina.
> 3) Why is this relevant in this discussion?
People like to think people only live in the US.
This is a low bar for ethical business practices.
If lure people to my ecosystem with low prices and then jack them up later when the switching costs are high, it's fine if they can afford it?
If the electric company jacked their rates by 10X for consumers who make over 100K a year would that be fine since "they can afford it"?
If grocery store A started charging $30 for walking into the store, you better bet everyone’s gonna head to grocery store B.