Comment on The purpose of podman quadlets?
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 month agoYup. I read it as “compose and manage containers with systemd.”
Sure, there is a k8s layer abstracted into podman to do this, but you don’t manage or interact with it. Everything is systemd unit file. Containers are started and logged like services.
Easy, direct, tidy.
dont@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Understood, thanks, but if I may ask, just to be sure: It seems to me that without interacting with the kubernetes layer, I’m not getting pods, only standalone containers, correct? (Not that I’m afraid of writing kube configuration, as others have inferred incorrectly. At this point, I’m mostly curious how this configuration would be looking, because I couldn’t find any examples.)
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I’m still new to this myself, but yes that’s the gist of it. This isn’t k8s or even k3s. It’s an easy, way to declaratively deploy a container on a single node system by using the already present systemd for management. It let’s you pretend that Linux handles containers natively like it does daemons.
This article from redhat has more information about the why and what.