exu , 6 hours ago

I use podman mainly because it’s very easy to manage using systemd services. Unfortunately, the command for generating these service files, podman-generate, is deprecated and won’t receive new features.

Auto updating is done just using a simple tag and enabling a systemd timer to do it regularly for you.

It’s easiest to start with the rootful mode, you won’t have additional settings to set and no issues with permissions, UIDs and networking.

For networking, I always create a network per service I want to run. For example Nextcloud and its database would go in one network and you’d only forward the port for the webinterface for outside access.

In addition to networks I also use pods, this basically groups the containers together to start/stop them as one. If you use this, you have to set your port forwarding here.