One thing the author probably hasn’t done yet or just doesn’t mention is that you can configure .container services with systemd-podman units (often called quadlets), e.g. a simple MariaDB container would look like this:
This is superb, because it means your containers finally feel well-integrated with the rest of the OS and you can use systemctl, journalctl, etc. just like you would with other services.
Personally, I use this as an alternative to Podman/Docker compose and have been very happy with it running rootless containers from Nextcloud, Pufferpanel, Forgejo, Authentik, etc. (ask me for .container files if you need any help, I’m currently working on a small repo with a collection)
Your distrust is kind of reasonable: I’ve been using this a lot for the past year and there definitely were two or three moments where it was a bit annoying, too little transparent on what commands will be run, etc.
One thing the author probably hasn’t done yet or just doesn’t mention is that you can configure
.containerservices with systemd-podman units (often called quadlets), e.g. a simple MariaDB container would look like this:[Unit] Description=MariaDB container [Container] Image=docker.io/mariadb:latest Environment=MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=rootpassword Environment=MYSQL_USER=testuser Environment=MYSQL_PASSWORD=testpassword Environment=MYSQL_DATABASE=testdb [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.targetShort intro Full reference
This is superb, because it means your containers finally feel well-integrated with the rest of the OS and you can use systemctl, journalctl, etc. just like you would with other services.
Personally, I use this as an alternative to Podman/Docker compose and have been very happy with it running rootless containers from Nextcloud, Pufferpanel, Forgejo, Authentik, etc. (ask me for .container files if you need any help, I’m currently working on a small repo with a collection)
awesome!
It’s amazing, the gitea container supports this. Autostarts on machine restart, etc.
Yeah, it’s great that Gitea/Forgejo has a copy-paste snippet in the docs, but you can actually use that with pretty much every container.
There is this useful tool to convert containers, podman commands or even compose files to podman-systemd units: https://github.com/containers/podlet
TIL. That’s pretty useful!
That idea feels very useful but I also distrust it and it makes me angry for reasons I can’t articulate.
Your distrust is kind of reasonable: I’ve been using this a lot for the past year and there definitely were two or three moments where it was a bit annoying, too little transparent on what commands will be run, etc.
Do the reasons include gate keeping?
I like this, but even though pod man runs perfect rootless, quadlets can only run as root for now :-(
Just place your Quadlets in the $HOME/.config/containers/systemd/ directory for this ;)
The reference I linked to earlier also contains more information on rootless.
While that is true, that is not how I would run services normally with SystemD. Those would be defined globally, but run as a user.
Definitiv then in the user home, means that I dint see them with
systemctlwhich is very annoying.Yes, you’d have to do
systemctl --userThat’s neat! There’s so many advanced features of systemd I swear I learn something new every time it comes up.
This is due to systems generators allowing Podman to plug in to that system