i found a good blog post explaining how to use systemd socket units and systemd socket proxy to automatically start a podman quadlet container on the first connection and stop it after some idle period

#blogshare #podman #quadlet #quadlets #systemd #homelab #selfhost

https://web.archive.org/web/20250726014034/https://thinkaboutit.tech/posts/2025-07-20-adhoc-containers-with-systemd-and-quadlet

Casual Containers With Systemd and Quadlet

In this post, I explain how a Podman Quadlet can be used with systemd socket activation.

Think About IT

This is a goldmine of #podman #networking tricks:

Example: Use socket units with `ReusePort=true` for your container units to let multiple containers share one port and let the kernel do the load-balancing via SO_REUSEPORT

https://github.com/eriksjolund/podman-networking-docs

#containers #linux #quadlets

GitHub - eriksjolund/podman-networking-docs: rootless Podman networking documentation with examples

rootless Podman networking documentation with examples - eriksjolund/podman-networking-docs

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TIL what #quadlets/#podlets are... nice thing. its just another #systemd unit now :D

Hi @Greylinux and if you are interested in #Quadlets for #OpenCloud you might wanna support the feature request at URL: https://github.com/orgs/opencloud-eu/discussions/1498

@johanneskastl

This has been what's it's all been for...

Bots raising PRs when a container is updated. I have the ability to roll back these back if something goes wrong and the same is true of OS updates.

#bootc #RenovateBot #Podman #Quadlets

After migrating from #Docker #Compose to #rootless #Podman Compose, the next step was to migrate my services to #Quadlets. I guess my container-based homelab setup is almost perfect now 😁

@homelab #homelab #selfhosting #selfhosted #systemd #quadlet

#TIL #podman #quadlets can also be defined through `.kube` files in the same way as can be usually done with `.container` units.

https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.unit.5.html

podman-systemd.unit — Podman documentation

i'm liking podman quadlets much more than docker compose. the learning curve was a bit steep but it was worth it for the deeper system integration

#podman #quadlets

I think I've come to the end of the road with bootc.

I've spent a good few months building up my #HomeLab with rootless #Podman and #Quadlets but getting a self hosted CI/CD pipeline to update the machine has been so painful, and now I've got everything "working" I'm finding issues like the one linked below.

I think I'm going to have to join the #NixOS band wagon and start over.

I know I can do podman or docker in Nix, but I'll want to do it fully Nix I think.

https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/22481

Cockpit failing to start due to a cockpit-tls error after building Fedora bootc image in Forgejo runner · Issue #22481 · cockpit-project/cockpit

Explain what happens I've installed cockpit into Fedora-bootc On boot up I get the error below. It only started today, I'm not aware of anything I've done to cause a regression on my machine other ...

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I find myself using quadlets more and more often, but the networking threw me for a loop when I first moved over from docker-compose.

Here's a quick post about getting your quadlets onto the same networks:

https://major.io/p/quadlet-networking/

#containers #quadlets #fedora #podman #networking

Getting podman quadlets talking to each other

Networking between podman quadlets isn’t automatic as it is with docker-compose, but the setup only takes a few extra steps.

Major Hayden