On: Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pod...

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There are lots of cools aspects of podman, for the admin one the real nice things is its integration with systemd.

podman generate systemd <containerid>

to generate .service files which can then be launched via systemd.

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This is a super underrated feature. You can do some really cool things when you combine this with Ignition and Fedora CoreOS. Ignition has the ability to manage systemd units on boot.

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/running-c...

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/03/12/how-to-customi...

Automatically boot, bootstrap the OS, and run your containers via systemd, all driven by infrastructure-as-code ignition files.

A much simpler edge or single-node container experience than using Kubernetes.

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Neat, thanks for the tip!

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can you get journal logs from a pod? archive and limit logs size etc using existing systemd configuration?

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yes, via journalctl