hell yeah! i moved my whole setup from docker to podman with systemd with quadlets. auto updates and everything. so smooth.
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 😆
They are generally pretty good but troubleshooting them is a pain. Quadlets are also a bit more more complex than Docker compose.
Note: User space includes root and anything not running in kernel space.
I'm definitely interested in your experience and why you came to those conclusions because I'm not sure I can agree on the primary points.
But I have to give you the note. Root is also user space (if privileged). I've barely ever done anything actually in kernel space, so I guess it's easy for me to screw that up.
Ah yes, a fellow quadlet enjoyer. Cheers!
Did
$ /usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/podman-system-generator --user --dryrun
Also prove to be really valuable, too?
I didn't use that! I had a docker-compose file and used podlet to translate (which took a little massaging due to it not supporting interpolations).
/usr/libexec/podman/quadlet --user --dryrun was quite helpful though!
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.
Yeah, those are very convenient and much easier than having to deal with Kubernetes or such.
Yeah replacing my k3s -> microk8s -> k3s multi-month headache with like 5 basic quadlet files in an evening was so wonderful and a relief
I like them very much as well, only thing I'm annoyed about is that you always need to drag that --user option.... I mean, if I'm not using root or sudo, shouldn't it be clear that I'm talking about the user space?
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