I've been trying to use podman - forced by RH policy of not upgrading the docker runtime in RHEL anymore, and so far it has been far from a drop-in replacement.

Since the last release I have access to within the newest RHEL7.6 is podman 0.11.1, I can't even start filing all the bugs I'm encountering, because - who knows - maybe they're fixed on master already.

So off I go trying to install this somewhere I fully control. This leads me to this issue:

• besides just the default install ([apt-get|yum|...] install podman), there should be clear documentation for getting the latest version.
  • currently there are at least two installation/build tutorials which have a non-empty symmetric difference: one linked from podman.io, and one in the main repo
  • I have a centOS machine at hand, but that is not documented where the updates are mentioned
  • podman is not in the EPEL repo
• ok, so building from source then.
  • build call is quite different from main install page
  • even though the build succeeded, I still can't use podman build (with a cryptic error), almost certainly because I'll need to install buildah.
  • and so on for skopeo/runc/...?
• make using latest versions easier
  • why not provide an RPM package?
  • same for Ubuntu/Debian - why not provide a .deb package?
• podman for windows not available...

So far, the experience has been incredibly frustrating (simple things like tagging don't work, caching is hit-and-miss [+ some weird interactions with keywords], podman build and buildah bud don't share cache, --target is not supported, etc. etc.).

Although I'm hoping that some of these bug fixes will still make it into RHEL8.0 (so that I can maybe use it later this year), current status is that I'll have to go back to the lack of features (but much greater stability) of docker 1.13.