Today I Learned ...

Containers

... About Podman Quadlets

If you run your containers in production it makes a whole lot of sense to tie them into systemd. It’s incredibly easy to do. This is an excellent blog post that tells you how to do it:

Quadlet: Running Podman containers under systemd.

... Hugomods Container Images and rootless vs. non-root

This blog is powered by the Hugo static site generator. I run this Hugo installation in a rootless podman container. While looking for a fitting container image (so I don’t have to maintain my own) I found the hugomods docker images. They have a ton of images to run Hugo for all kinds of environments. I found various images tagged non-root and thought: Bam! That’s what I’m looking for! I was pretty surprised that it didn’t work. Instead this (simplified) podman call would give me a permission error: