<story><title>On the joy of podman and auto-updates (2022)</title><url>https://feldspaten.org/2022/07/09/On-the-joy-of-podman-and-auto-updates/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lbayes</author><text>I got somewhat excited about podman a couple months ago, and then learned that there are painful shenanigans between required versions and the (ancient?) one that is available in the Ubuntu 22.10 package manager [1].&lt;p&gt;It seemed great until I tried to launch an existing Postgres container that required a more recent Podman version.&lt;p&gt;The Podman installation page [2] makes some effort to explain alternate installation steps, but doesn&amp;#x27;t make it clear why, or how far back you&amp;#x27;ll be.&lt;p&gt;Not complaining here, just giving folks a heads up.&lt;p&gt;Despite these issues, it does look like a great project.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;containers&amp;#x2F;podman&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;14065&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;containers&amp;#x2F;podman&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;14065&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;podman.io&amp;#x2F;getting-started&amp;#x2F;installation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;podman.io&amp;#x2F;getting-started&amp;#x2F;installation&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>On the joy of podman and auto-updates (2022)</title><url>https://feldspaten.org/2022/07/09/On-the-joy-of-podman-and-auto-updates/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>meitham</author><text>It’s very nice to have the option for auto update, but in reality would anyone wants their containers to auto deploy newer versions?  Aside from the security exposure (specially if you were on a Scandinavian’s holiday) there is the risk of backward incompatibility such as changes around config, db migration, cli arts or anything else the container might consume but sits outside the container!</text></comment>