I am playing around with Podman Quadlet and that’s one hell of a rabbit hole. I have everything up and running, and now I need to configure the containers, and probably will deal with other pain points, etc.
The good thing is that I have documented the whole process so it is reproducible but it took me quite some time to figure out everything.
Because it is beginner friendly and it has a lifetime license I guess.
Nice, thanks for sharing. How did you solve the file permission issue?
Also I see you put all your services as a single pod quadlet what I am trying to achieve is to have every service as a separate systemd unit file, that I can control separately. In this case you also have a complication with the network setup.
You can actually set your user to linger with
sudo loginctl enable-linger $USER
I will test your setup and report back if it works.
By the way what was the reason to switch back to Docker Compose?
There are no logs in journalctl, just when I check the status of the systemd services I see that the container service has crashed and after 5-6 restarts it gave up.
I was thinking of installing the latest podman 5.7.0 and try with it, as there are quite a few updates between that one and 5.4.2 that comes as standard on Rocky.
I can try to upload my container services and network tomorrow and share the link here.
Absolutely plus I love the idea of having them as separate services. I just don’t know how to configure them apparently.
Did you create a separate systemd network for your Quadlets or are you using a bridge or host network?
I don’t know, I tried even with uptime-kuma and Homepage but as soon as I start the service it kills it after 6 unsuccessful restarts. Maybe I will spin up a completely new VM tomorrow and start from scratch.
I think the problem might be with the data directory permissions, even though I have added the subuid and the subgid to my user and enabled the lingering on the user.
But I did so many things so there is a chance it is already quite messed up.
As far as I am aware they are also better at video encoding and if you want to use Blender or similar software, yes, it is niche, but a credible consideration. As always, it really depends on the use case.
Even though I hate Nvidia, they have a couple of advantages:
So if you need this card for productivity and not only gaming, Nvidia is probably better, if you buy second hand or strictly for gaming, AMD is better.
CUDA acceleration.
Obsidian with Syncthing running on both your Android and your server for syncing your notes.
Check your logs and make sure that you didn’t run out of RAM/space on your Backup Server.
I have a lifetime Plex pass, but recently I switched to Jellyfin because I got sick and tired of Plex’ shenanigans.
Here you need to decide if you want to run Plex/Jellyfin on the same server or not. And how important power consumption is for you.
You should also consider if you are planning to run only the NAS or some other VMs/containers on that machine. In that case you might consider 32 Gb of RAM to be more future proof.
The problem with unRAID is that you don’t really know when their product will be enshittificated. A very fresh example is Plex which was great for years and now is a bloated utter mess. They have changed their licensing policy and made the product legitimately worse for the end customers. And don’t want to be cynical but the chances are that unRAID will go that way too sooner or later.
Elasticsearch should work too
Do you have a GitHub repo? As I am building my system like this and was thinking of exactly using Podman and quadlets.
I have a physical CD of Ubuntu 6.10, back then they were distributing those over the mail and a friend of mine ordered some and gave me. I still keep it.
I will definitely do that, I just want to finish the whole setup.