Anyone mildly familiar with Ansible will attest, maintaining idempotency is a key secret-sauce to stable automation. Without idempotency, it’s all but impossible to detect drift and/or predictably manage state changes. Similarly, anyone beyond a complete-beginning Podman user, will know that defining and using volumes are essential operations. Now for the problem: In Ansible-land, the template…
In my personal opinion, user-namespace are one of the most brain-twisting aspects of rootless containers to understand. Arguably right up there with Kubernetes, the learning curve can be quite steep. In this article, I will attempt to reduce that slope for new Podman users (and converts), with an easy to understand analogy. Hopefully this will…
Podman runs Linux containers, which depend on a Linux operating system. This means that if a user is on a Mac or Windows, Podman needs to run inside a VM. Most of the time, a standard install of Podman machine just works out of the box. However, when something goes wrong, the complexity of the…
Boilerplate walkthrough rootless systemd podman-service, inside a rootless podman container.
I have yet to bump into perfect software. Bugs, failures, and short-comings are the reality of software developers. They often have upsides whether it might be learning about a new area of code in a larger application or coming up with ideas to prevent problems. We had an interesting problem brought to our attention recently…
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