I decided to dedicate my weekend to server maintenance and documentation.

Yesterday, I managed to install Immich using Quadlets, following the instructions on this very insightful repository, then I tried to migrate a Nextcloud installation from YunoHost to my new homelab. I started a #tmux session so that @sirodoht could kindly join to help me. We tinkered for two hours, but there was too much to do 🤯

Today, I spent the whole day writing documentation for these and many other things I learned/did in the past couple of months, since I am terrible at taking notes of the technical experiments I do.

I am exhausted, but also quite discouraged. The more I write, the more I feel there is to write. I really think I don’t have the time and the energy, but when it’s done it’s very fulfilling, and it’s very useful to have a lot of references in the future.

I will edit this post once what I wrote gets published on tommi.space.

#Immich #Podman #Quadlet #Quadlets #systemd #Linux #containers #tmux #documentation

Tips buat yang jalanin #container terutama menggunakan #podman dan #quadlet.

Jika container tersebut butuh konsistensi data pada storage, misalnya database, biasanya untuk memberhentikan container itu butuh waktu yang cukup lama karena container tersebut akan melakukan "bersih-bersih" terlebih dahulu.

Timeout default saat stop container quadlet adalah 10 detik (yang merupakan default dari podman). Seringkali ini tidaklah cukup. Jika diabaikan, aplikasi di container tersebut akan diterminasi paksa sebelum dia selesai bersih-bersih.

Agar tidak di-terminasi paksa jika lebih dari 10 detik, naikkan batas timeout misal menjadi 120 detik (atau nilai lain yang dianggap wajar).

Caranya cukup edit file quadlet anda:

Catatan, [Container] dan [Service] tidak perlu anda ketik ulang, karena biasanya sudah ada di file quadlet tersebut. "..." juga hanya sebagai ilustrasi saja, tidak perlu anda ketik ulang.

Mengapa butuh dua baris tersebut, di [Container] dan juga [Service]?

Pada section --stop-timeout= pada section [Container] itu fungsinya untuk memberitahu podman bahwa batas timeout adalah 120 detik.

Sedangkan TimeoutStopSec= pada section [Service] untuk menaikkan batas timeout #systemd ketika menunggu podman selesai melakukan terminasi.

Jadi pada [Container] itu untuk timeout podman menunggu aplikasi selesai. Sedangkan pada [Service] untuk timeout systemd menunggu podman selesai.

You might have noticed that I have spend some time in my Quadlets Repo, taking care of some Grafana stuff.

Took me a bit to understand it but I’m quite happy with the result.

Check it out if you’d like to deploy your Grafana instance with a few extras in your homelab!

https://codeberg.org/Spoljarevic/Quadlets/src/branch/master/rootless/containers/systemd/Monitoring%20-%20prometheus%20and%20grafana

#git #codeberg #monitoring #grafana #prometheus #NodeExporter #podmanexporter #tailscale #tailscaleexporter #podman #quadlet #quadlets #rootless

Writing Quadlets

https://pancake.bearblog.dev/2026-03-18-writing-quadlets/
#blog #podman #quadlet #quadlets #selfhosting #homelab #systemd

Out of boredom, I thought why not give the Zammad Quadlets another try.
Originally, I planned to work on them next month but I just couldn’t resist.

And would you look at that, adding two more variables to the nginx container fixed the problem.

Now the Quadlets are working like a charm, meaning I need a new project for next month.

The wiki will probably be finished by the end of this week.

Check them out and give them a try by cloning my codeberg repo!

https://codeberg.org/Spoljarevic/Zammad-Podman-Quadlets/src/branch/master

#podman #quadlets #quadlet #podmanquadlets #coding #troubleshooting #codeberg #dns #repo #zammad #ticket #tickets #ticketsystem

Tänään taistelin podmanin ja Debianin kanssa. Quadlet systemd -juidut eivät vaan ottaneet toimiakseen. Luin blogeja, foorumeita ja turvauduin tekoälyyn, mutta ei…

Sitten luin podman-systemd.unit manuaalisivun ja homma rokkasi parissa minuutissa.

#RTFM #podman #debian #quadlet

How do I use journalctl from the root account to tail logs of a service running as a user ? I am using #podman #quadlets to manage containers using #systemd btw

Doing this:

journalctl --user --machine=containeruser@ -xeu helloworld.service

Gives me this error:

Failed to open root directory of machine 'containeruser@': No machine 'containeruser@' known
Failed to open journal: No such device or address

help!?

#linux #selfhosting #quadlet