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Getting podman quadlets talking to each other

Networking between podman quadlets isn’t automatic as it is with docker-compose, but the setup only takes a few extra steps.

25 September 2025 · 3 min · 573 words · Major Hayden
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Automatic container updates with Podman quadlets

Podman’s quadlet system combined with systemd timers makes container updates easy and automatic.

19 September 2025 · 3 min · 437 words · Major Hayden
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the CoreOS

Here’s a blog post to answer the question: Why do you write so much about CoreOS? 📦

13 October 2023 · 5 min · 944 words · Major Hayden
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Quadlets might make me finally stop using docker-compose

Sure, docker-compose is great, but could we get similar functionality using just the tools that are built into CoreOS? Can we get automatic updates, too? Yes we can! 📦

25 September 2023 · 7 min · 1412 words · Major Hayden
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Fixing a ghost database migration failure

I woke up one morning to find my Ghost blog unresponsive. It required an unexpected fix. 🔧

31 August 2023 · 6 min · 1234 words · Major Hayden
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Launch a watchtower container via podman quadlets

Podman’s new quadlet feature lets you specify container launch configuration via simple systemd-like unit files. 📦

31 May 2023 · 4 min · 649 words · map[email:major@mhtx.net name:Major Hayden]
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CoreOS as a pet

CoreOS provides a fast track to running containers with a light weight immutable OS underneath. This doesn’t mean that you can’t keep it around as a pet instance. 🐕

25 May 2023 · 6 min · 1144 words · Major Hayden
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Run Xorg applications with podman

Package up graphical applications in containers and run them with podman. 🚢

17 October 2021 · 3 min · 506 words · Major Hayden
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Rootless container management with docker-compose and podman

Run rootless Linux containers without any daemons using docker-compose and podman on Fedora! 📦

9 July 2021 · 4 min · 698 words · Major Hayden
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Get faster GitLab runners with a ramdisk

Many cloud providers give you lots of memory with each instance and you can speed up tests and builds by using a ramdisk.

16 August 2019 · 3 min · 589 words · Major Hayden
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buildah error: vfs driver does not support overlay.mountopt options

Buildah and podman work well with the vfs storage driver, but the default mount options can cause problems.

13 August 2019 · 2 min · 320 words · Major Hayden
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Build containers in GitLab CI with buildah

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24 May 2019 · 5 min · 882 words · Major Hayden