Running Podman in production for years now, and I don't miss the Docker daemon one bit.

[larvitz@burningboard.net]

Running Podman in production for years now, and I don't miss the Docker daemon one bit.

I just published a deep dive on managing OCI containers the Unix way: daemonless, rootless, and natively integrated with systemd via Quadlets.

I cover:
- Real secrets management
- Auto-updates via systemd timers
- The Docker compatibility layer

This is the guide I wish I had when making the switch.

Read it here: https://blog.hofstede.it/podman-in-production-quadlets-secrets-auto-updates-and-docker-compatibility/

#Podman #Linux #DevOps #Systemd #Homelab #Sysadmin #Containers

[moreentropy@chaos.social]

@Larvitz I'm in a similar place with podman and I love that guide. You introduce everything I like about podman and quadlets in such a nice way, thank you!

[mmu_man@m.g3l.org]

@Larvitz been wondering about switching to either podman or libvirt for the plain LXC things I have on a server, because some other admins are not used to it and want GUI tools, but I suppose that means migrating… ?

[larvitz@burningboard.net]

@mmu_man For GUIs, there's Podman Desktop (https://podman-desktop.io) and also the web-based Cockpit Client for Podman (https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-podman)

[mmu_man@m.g3l.org]

@Larvitz yeah but it won't keep containers as is I guess, so I won't be able to keep using lxc commands directly…

[larvitz@burningboard.net]

@mmu_man Yeah for sure. LXC and Podman are different technologies.

[larvitz@burningboard.net]

@shom

~/.config/systemd/user/ is for systmd units (podman generate systemd). That was the old way to do it.

~/.config/containers/systemd/ is for Quadlet files, the modern way to describe containers declaratively:

podman-systemd.unit — Podman documentation

(docs.podman.io)

Quadlets files are similar to Systemd units and describe a container with all it's attributes.