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Running rootless containers is easy with Podman. With Podman Quadlet files, these containers are seamlessly integrated into systemd services.

Koen Vervloesem

Podman since version 4.4 has a native mechanism to start containers automatically by systemd unit files: Podman Quadlet. In this article, I guide you through preparing your system and configuring it to use Quadlets (as the container unit files are called) for your rootless Podman containers. As an example, I’ll show you how to set up a reverse proxy in one container and some web services behind the proxy in other containers. Docker and Podman If you want to configure which Docker containers should start automatically on your Linux server, Docker Compose [1] is a widely recognized solution. However, within enterprise Linux distributions, Podman [2] has been the preferred container engine for a while. Both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise have adopted Podman, as have their associated…

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