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README.md

podbox

What is this?

I've been using docker compose to build and manage my Jellyfin server for almost 2 years. I love what containerization enables but I am unhappy with yaml as the language for expressing my system. I moved my personal desktop and workstation pc to NixOS and have seen the light, but I am not sure that I want to do containers under NixOS right now.

What I did want was a fully FOSS container stack. I have explored podman at arm's length and finally discovered that there is a compose-like interface for choreographing my containers, but it isn't yaml. It's actually systemd, which has already been orchestrating service lifetimes even longer than docker by three years!

This new declarative configuration is known as quadlets, and they are just systemd unit files. I already run some of my own personal startup applications as systemd user services, because it works across any window manager or desktop environment. One autostart to rule them all, then.

The following sections of this document are my notes for building this system from scratch, assuming you bring your own hardware. It should be easy to modify them for another distribution if necessary. All notes and instructions are commandline, because it's more universal and easier to copy & paste. I do not know if there are GUI ways to do all of the necessary steps with Cockpit or a hypervisor like Proxmox.

The end goal is make this a repository of quadlet stacks that are easy to reuse. It would be similar to the linuxserver.io fleet, but I don't think there is much need anymore for more custom containers. Many upstreams now provide ready-built containers that we need only configure.

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