I have several Podman containers running via systemd services generated by 'podman generate systemd --new'. They work well, the unit files are easy to read and they are quite portable and easy to use, ...

With plenty of documentation, thousands of container images, and a solid ecosystem, Docker is the most popular container runtime in the home lab community. That said, it’s far from the only platform ...

Docker uses a persistent background service, dockerd, to manage container lifecycles. The CLI communicates with this daemon, which supervises container creation, networking, and resource allocation.