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Contrarian View: Docker 28 Is No Longer the Best Container Runtime—Podman 5.2 and Buildah 1.33 Are Better

DEV Community·ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL·6 months ago
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After 14 consecutive quarters as the dominant container runtime, Docker 28’s market share among production workloads dropped 8.2% in Q3 2024, per Datadog’s Container Report—while Podman 5.2 adoption grew 217% year-over-year. The era of Docker as the default is over.

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