This is so fucking annoying. Whenever you try to run something not clearly meant for the desktop, there is like a 80/20 chance that you can completely forget suspend…

Yes, you’d have to do systemctl --user

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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.

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.

Same here; Rootless Podman Quadlets gang unite (there is two of us in total)

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

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:

[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.target

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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)

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