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Podman Quadlets are so cool (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago by Botzo@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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

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[–] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thank you for telling me about Podlet. I've been using podman-compose for all my containers but I've thought about converting them to systemd units. The only thing I'm unsure about is whether it'll still be easy to access the container files. Currently I have a containers folder with a folder for each service inside it. Inside that, there's the compose.yml and the folders with the container data. I map all container folders, with data that needs to be kept, to a folder that sits right next to the compose file. If it's just temporary data (like caches), I oftentimes map it to a volume because it doesn't matter if I lose it. Do you know if I can still do it like this (or in a similar way) if I use systemd units?

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

The spec for quadlets has a few dedicated homes for the .pod, .container, etc. files. You can absolutely mount directories or files wherever (%h is $HOME for systemd unit files). See the Volume description for Container unit files: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.unit.5.html#volume