• k_rol@lemmy.caEnglish
    101·
    2 months ago

    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 😆

    • Botzo@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I used podlet on my compose file. I was a little disappointed in the limitations, as a lot of things like variable interpolation isn’t available.

      That said, the output made me wonder why I’ve waited! It was so much simpler than I imagined. It also helped demystify unit files a bit more.

    • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      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?

  • giacomo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    hell yeah! i moved my whole setup from docker to podman with systemd with quadlets. auto updates and everything. so smooth.

  • dust_accelerator@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    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?

    • Botzo@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      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!

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
    51·
    2 months ago

    Yeah, those are very convenient and much easier than having to deal with Kubernetes or such.

    • mongoose@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      41·
      2 months ago

      Yeah replacing my k3s -> microk8s -> k3s multi-month headache with like 5 basic quadlet files in an evening was so wonderful and a relief

  • Eldaroth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    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?

    • Botzo@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    41·
    2 months ago

    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?

    • Botzo@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Agreed! That would be a huge QoL improvement (and work just like the podman command does). Now I’m thinking about other commands that force this silliness, like pip.