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• olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I set my homelab up on Bazzite immutable with podman and SELinux. It took a while to work everything out and have it boot up into a valid state hahaha

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  • epicshepich@programming.dev ⁨23⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Any reason you chose Bazzite for your homelab distro? First I’ve heard of someone doing that!

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    • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t an immutable OS be overall a pretty good idea for a stable server?

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• erev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s not that difficult to get SELinux working with podman quadlets, especially if you run things rootless. I have a kerberized service account for each application I host and my quadlets are configured to run under those. I very rarely encounter applications that simoky can’t be run rootless but I usually can find an adequate alternative. I think right now the only thing that runs as root is one of the talk or collabora containers in my nextcloud stack. No selinux issues either.

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  • epicshepich@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I use podman-compose with system accounts and I don’t have a ton of issues. The biggest one is that I can’t seem to get bluetooth and pip working on Home Assistant at the same time. Most of the servers I manage have SELinux and it works fine as long as I use :z/:Z with bind mounts.

    A few years ago, I set up a VPS for my friend’s business; at the time, I didn’t know how to work with SELinux so I just turned it off. I tried to flip it back on, and it somehow bricked the system. We had to restore from a backup. Since then, I’ve been afraid to enable it on my flagship homelab server.

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      are you sure it really bricked it? when turning it on, on next boot it needs to go over all the files and retag them or something like that, and it can take a significant amount of time

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      • epicshepich@programming.dev ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Honestly, I don’t know what happened, but it was unreachable via SSH and the web console. There shouldn’t have been a ton of files to tag since it was an Almalinux system that started with SELinux enabled, and all we added was a container app or two.

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