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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Helm

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AHelm is an open source Kubernetes package manager.N/A

    Podman

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/APodman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on Linux Systems. Containers can either be run as root or in rootless mode. Podman is open source and free, supported and maintained by the Containers organization, with code available from GitHub.N/A
    Pricing
    HelmPodman
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    HelmPodman
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    HelmPodman
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Helm and Podman.io
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    Ratings
    Podman.io
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Security and Isolation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Docker
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    Score9.4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Docker
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Docker
    Score8.3 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Score7.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HelmPodman
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    HelmPodman
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    If you need to automate the deployment of environments in Kubernetes and these environments should be easily replicable in other regions of your cloud provider or even in other cloud providers, then this is the tool for you. Just be prepared for a certain degree of complexity when creating the charts.
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    Open Source
    While it always depends on your use case, I believe security concerns of need for root user is a concern, so it is worth considering daemonless container service over Docker, which works just as good and has support for docker compose. Another good reason is the licensing for enterprise usage, which podman has no restrictions for. It’s also a great choice for OpenShift integration, which is seamless and works well with Rancher as well.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • Templates - The ability to create templates is really helpful and help creates a baseline for package management.
    • Rollbacks - it is godsend. Period.
    • Dry-run - This really is helpful when troubleshooting deployments and is great for testing out new charts as well.
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    Open Source
    • It’s daemonless, so somewhat more secure.
    • It works exceptionally well and is compatible with Docker compose
    • Podman Desktop actually makes individual usage also pretty easy.
    • It can be used as Docker alternative with almost no additional steps
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • concurrent deployments
    • templating values files
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    Open Source
    • Podman desktop is getting more stable with each version, but does need more UX friendliness as well.
    • Official support for development tools and IDEs is missing for most tools
    • It works well with Kubernetes, but I wouldn’t mind additional improvements
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    Support Rating
    Open Source
    We didn't really need support, but the open-source community seemed responsive and informative when it came to issues. Many cloud native consultancy companies (including ourselves) offer support for Helm.
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    Open Source
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    We have a natural trending to use what is a reference in its space and Helm has being leader in its area for a long time. Since it has all features we need didn't make sense to us to invest time on researching and testing other alternatives, so Helm was our first and only tool in regards of automating deployments on Kubernetes
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    Open Source
    Podman is Daemonless, lightweight and doesn’t charge us for commercial usage, so it’s a relief for startups. Minikube and Rancher are a bit more complex for our use cases; so we keep things simple, fast and secure with Podman that can easily be managed with Podman Desktop and other works with our docker-compose based projects without issues.
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • Reduction in human effort.
    • Streamline software versions and upgrades.
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    Open Source
    • We definitely feel more secure.
    • We do not suffer from memory or cpu overuses as it uses fedora coreOS which is lightweight
    • We do not have to worry about license payments for our basic usages.
    • It’s open source so quick fixes imminent with maximum transparency.
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