I don’t really have anyone else to shout at about this, but it’s an amazing way to host services in rootless containers entirely in user space using systemd (systemctl --user).
https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.unit.5.html
I love the concept too and I just hope it will catch on much more than this. To convert your compose files you could use Podlet. I’m also working on converting it to JavaScript(PodletJS) so it’s available in it-tools.
Go for Podlet though, really nice for command lines.
Sorry for all the links, I got overly excited 😆
hell yeah! i moved my whole setup from docker to podman with systemd with quadlets. auto updates and everything. so smooth.
If you want to use caddy as proxy for other containers running as quadlets have a look at this repo: https://github.com/eriksjolund/podman-caddy-socket-activation
It certainly demystified some network shenanigans for me.
Nice, did the same for some services I run at home. Now in the process of migrating my stuff on my vps from docker compose to quadlets. It’s a bit more involved but worth the QoL stuff quadlets bring with them, like automatic updates and systemd integration. I’m curious, which is your Linux distro of choice to run your podman quadlets on?
I’m now running quadlets on Garuda (my gaming/devbox), and Fedora. The impetus for this was needing to host service in an unprivileged way at work on RHEL9, so I got paid to do some learning with my own services.
My laptop is running Bazzite, but no services there. I’ll move the server to silverblue or another image based distro when I finish extracting the rest of my misadventures to containers.
openSUSE MicroOS is amazing
