Published on: 2025-04-29 02:16:51
Containers are typically deployed in Kubernetes clusters. However, for smaller-scale use cases such as on a single-node server or during development, Kubernetes can be overkill. What’s a more lightweight solution for running autonomous applications with multiple interacting containers? In this blog, we'll dive into what Quadlets are, their benefits, and how to use them within Podman Desktop. Podman Quadlets allow you to manage containers declaratively using systemd1. Since version 4.4, Podman
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Please note that InitWare is still alpha software. But all disclosed security concerns have now been addressed. Running InitWare as an auxiliary service manager under NetBSD can now, then, be regarded as safe; but beware relying on this in production until a first stable release is made. The InitWare Suite of Middleware allows you to manage services and system resources as logical entities called units. It runs on NetBSD, GNU/Linux, and all the other modern BSD systems. Units are automatically
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Quadlet: Running Podman containers under systemd 2024-01-02 , updated: 2024-02-19 Tags: #container,#linux,#selfhosting Reading time: ~11min Quadlet lets you run your Podman containers as systemd services. This is especially useful for running containers in the background and automatically starting them after a server reboot. Running Podman containers under systemd isn't new. Indeed, this was supported by Podman for a long time with the command podman generate systemd . But this command now sho
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The other day I thought to myself that it would be a good idea to have some backups of my data. So I was wondering, how would I execute a periodic backup task? Most of you are probably familiar with cron . cron is a Unix utility to run scheduled tasks. There is a file called crontab which you edit by issuing crontab -e command, and inside schedule tasks such as: 0 1 * * * /home/skwee357/backup.sh The first 5 entries are what is known as a cron expression, and they dictate when the command wil
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postmarketOS in 2025-02: MSM89x7 Audio, Modern Xiaomis in Community, New Name Foreshadowing 17 min. read We already wrote plenty about FOSDEM 2025 and the Hackathon we did afterwards. But that was just the start of February! Two weeks later, a mainlining workshop in Aachen (DE) took place. Jens organized it and posted some notes including "1 Xiaomi tablet now boots mainline quite well and can boot to system from UFS" and "it is damn hard to explain this to people with almost no technical knowle
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