podman – Just another Linux geek

20 February, 202120 February, 2021Fedora, FOSS

Rootless podman containers under system accounts, managed and enabled at boot with systemd

While you can run containers as root on the host, or run rootless containers as your regular user (either as uid 0 or any another), sometimes it’s nice to create […]

31 January, 202131 January, 2021Fedora, FOSS

Podman volumes and SELinux

In my previous post on volumes with podman, I touched on SELinux but I think it’s worthy of its own post to work through some details. If your host has […]

31 January, 20216 October, 2021Fedora, FOSS

Volumes and rootless Podman

Containers generally run from an image and have no access to the host file system. This is fine for stand-alone ephemeral containers, but others require persistent data. While we can […]

26 January, 202126 January, 2021Fedora, FOSS

User IDs and (rootless) containers with Podman

When a Linux container image is created, like any system it can have specific users, or maybe it only has root (uid 0). Containers have a specific entry point which […]

11 April, 202019 April, 2020Fedora, FOSS

Fedora Silverblue is an amazing immutable desktop

I recently switched my regular Fedora 31 workstation over to the 31 Silverblue release. I’ve played with Project Atomic before and have been meaning to try it out more seriously […]

11 April, 202011 April, 2020Fedora, FOSS

Easy containers on Fedora with toolbox

The toolbox program is a wrapper for setting up containers on Fedora. It’s not doing anything you can’t do yourself with podman, but it does make using and managing containers […]