Podman is installed out of the box on Fedora Silverblue. When I need to start new projects, podman coupled with ansible are the tools I use to configure them. Podman is a drop in replacement for Docker but I encountered a couple of issues. Read on to find out more.

Since I have been using Fedora Silverblue full time I have switched away from using Docker and docker-compose, for container orchestration, to creating ansible playbooks to provision local development containers.

I’ve been using linux as my OS of choice for many years now, for personal and work related usage and my current distro of choice is Fedora Silverblue. If you are wondering what the difference is compared to the regular Fedora workstation then read on.