Docker 27.0 vs Podman 5.0 for Rootless Containers: 500 Enterprise Adoption Survey Finds 27% Fewer Security Vulnerabilities A new comprehensive survey of 500 enterprise IT and DevOps teams sheds light on the security and adoption trends for rootless container runtimes, with Podman 5.0 outperforming Docker 27.0 in vulnerability reduction by a significant margin. Key Survey Methodology and Findings The 2024 Enterprise Container Security Survey polled 500 organizations across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, with 78% of respondents running production workloads in rootless mode. The core finding: environments using Podman 5.0 for rootless containers reported 27% fewer critical and high-severity security vulnerabilities over a 12-month period compared to peers using Docker 27.0. Additional findings include: 62% of Podman 5.0 adopters cited built-in rootless support as their primary selection criteria, versus 41% for Docker 27.0 users.…