Dockerless containers with Podman on MacOS

Docker the company has been throwing wrenches lately into what used to be a smooth user experience with their new Terms of Service for Docker Desktop and various limits imposed on image pulls from DockerHub. Understandably, many people have been looking for alternatives which are easier to implement on Linux but not so much on MacOS.

We are showing here a way to build and use containers on a Mac without Docker, using Podman.

First things first, install podman via brew: