Possibly of interest: s3gw[1] is a modified version of ceph's radosgw that allows it to run standalone. It's geared towards kubernetes (notably part of Rancher's storage solution), but should work as a standalone container.
You're conflating git with git forges. Most popular forges use a centralized model. Git was built as distributed from the start and it's original mode of collaboration was through a federated protocol.
Apache doesn't enforce copyleft, so the Pear authors can license whatever changes they made to Continue with any license they want.
What isn't ok is to change the license of the existing code. They seemed to have corrected this since[0]. I think it's very hard to argue they didn't comply with the Apache license in this case, especially since the license is technically included in the forked git history.
On the surface this just seems like it was a naive and sincere mistake. I doubt that the Pear people were trying something nasty.
It also seems one of the founders has a fairly popular YouTube channel, so he's probably aware that this sort of nothingburger drama is great for business if handled competently.
I use it a lot for personal homelab infrastructure. I find it feels a lot more natural than single process containers for the workloads I use (torrent clients, game servers, plex...). I've unfortunately never used it for production workloads, and likely never will after recent news.
I also find lxc system containers better than OCI style immutable containers for dev environments for my personal projects, and LXD is the best way to manage them AFAIK.
CentOS 7 is supported and will be EOL at the same time as RHEL 7.
Stream does have major versions so you can continue to use CentOS Stream 8 and get backports. You only lose anything if you're tied to some minor version of EL for some reason.
There's no guarantee the boilerplate an LLM spits out will be up to date. It'll almost definitely have some outdated code in it's dataset that it can reference.
For the UI part cockpit [1] lets you manage containers (amongst many other things). I use it with fedora for my home server and rarely feel the need to drop into the command line in my day to day.
Possibly of interest: s3gw[1] is a modified version of ceph's radosgw that allows it to run standalone. It's geared towards kubernetes (notably part of Rancher's storage solution), but should work as a standalone container.
[0] https://github.com/gaul/s3proxy [1] https://github.com/s3gw-tech/s3gw