When I moved my "home server" tools to my desktop that wasn't getting used as much as I might, freeing me up to have one less computer in the house.
My home server is just a desktop running Fedora 40 with an extra SSD in it. I run a mix of things on it, and because containers and VMs give you the opportunity to set things up to experiment on but not ruin the underlying system, I do.
VMs for me are disposable, I play with a new tool or Linux distro, I may keep it around for a bit, but it's not permanent.
Find a shell script for each container, these will do the following
- Create a user for the container
- Make sure that the user's home directory is created, and owned by the user
- Start the container
- Optionally
- Create a base directory for data that will be used by volumes and make sure that the user created owns that
Podman does not behave the same way that Docker does in this regard. Container startup is managed like any other installed software on a modern Linux system, with service files and systemctl.
To generate .service files for each container you
sudo podman generate systemd --new --files --name _container_name_
Those service file should be copied to /usr/lib/systemd/system, then enable and start them with systemctl as any other daemon.
shell script firefox shell
.service file firefox service