> It is a tool for those that prefer working with containers with a GUI instead of the terminal.
Sort of. In the case of podman desktop, that is true because you can opt to just install the cli podman if you prefer.
But in the world of Docker, they force end-users on Mac (and I think windows) to install docker through docker desktop even if you don't ever touch the GUI. I don't use the GUI ever, but can't find a way to install docker on Mac outside of the GUI. Maybe there's a way, but at least on Docker's website it seems to be the only way and at my company with ~100 devs no one else has figured it out either.
On windows I just use WSL2 with docker installed through the Linux distribution (Ubuntu in my case). This way I get docker on my windows Laptop without the annoying docker desktop
I wanted to build a Windows container image but I really did not want to install Docker Desktop. After some digging around I found my way to the Docker server / client binaries for Windows page that allowed me to do this: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/binaries/#install-ser...
Did you follow a particular guide for how to do that?
I remember trying a while back, when WSL2 was first released, and I couldn't get it to work; IIRC I couldn't get stuff running in Windows to communicate with stuff running in containers in WSL2, and also vice-versa.
On WSL2, you just install Docker the same way as you would do on Linux. `sudo apt install docker.io` (from Debian/Ubuntu repo) or `curl https://get.docker.com | sh` (from Docker Inc). If you are using different WSL distribution, the standard way to install docker should work just fine. (e.g. `sudo pacman -S docker` works as expected on ArchWSL)
I agree. I do remember that in earlier versions WSL2 this approach didn't work, but currently it's the same as installing docker on a regular Linux distribution
> But in the world of Docker, they force end-users on Mac (and I think windows) to install docker through docker desktop even if you don't ever touch the GUI.
They try. But between homebrew and Colima you can get away with cli tools.
Sort of. In the case of podman desktop, that is true because you can opt to just install the cli podman if you prefer.
But in the world of Docker, they force end-users on Mac (and I think windows) to install docker through docker desktop even if you don't ever touch the GUI. I don't use the GUI ever, but can't find a way to install docker on Mac outside of the GUI. Maybe there's a way, but at least on Docker's website it seems to be the only way and at my company with ~100 devs no one else has figured it out either.