mo8it's personal website with a technical blog about Rust, Linux, FOSS and Self-Hosting Zola 2025-09-25T00:00:00+00:00 https://mo8it.com/tags/linux/atom.xml 2024-01-02T00:00:00+00:00 2025-09-25T00:00:00+00:00 mo8it https://mo8it.com/blog/quadlet/

<p>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.</p> <p>Running Podman containers under systemd isn't new. Indeed, this was supported by Podman for a long time with the command <a rel="external" href="https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-generate-systemd.1.html"><code>podman generate systemd</code></a>. But this command now shows a deprecation warning to migrate to Quadlet.</p> <p>For some months, I was too lazy to do that migration on my home server. Why even touch a working system? But now that I finally found time for it, I really appreciate Quadlet! I think that Podman finally has a Docker Compose alternative which is even more flexible and powerful!</p> <p>In this blog post, I will explain how to use Quadlet with <strong>rootless</strong> Podman and migrate from the old method with <code>podman generate systemd</code>.</p>

2023-11-23T00:00:00+00:00 2023-11-23T00:00:00+00:00 mo8it https://mo8it.com/blog/privacy/

<p>An AD blocker killed a project that I was working on for 4 months. It was one commit adding 2 lines that killed 419 commits with more than 2000 total lines of code.</p> <p>The script that powers my project was placed on the filter list "EasyPrivacy". But is the project that I designed with privacy as the first feature trying to invade your privacy?</p> <p>This brings up the topic about telemetry in FOSS projects. Is telemetry inherently bad? Is there a way to collect telemetry without comprimising privacy?</p>

2023-04-04T00:00:00+00:00 2024-02-19T00:00:00+00:00 mo8it https://mo8it.com/blog/containerized-postgresql-with-rootless-podman/

<p>This post is about running rootless Podman containers with <a rel="external" href="https://www.postgresql.org">PostgreSQL</a> as a central example 📦️</p> <p>The post serves as an optional preparation for the next post about interacting with databases with <a rel="external" href="https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx">SQLx</a> in Rust 🦀</p>