Eldaroth
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Finally managed to carve out some time since the birth of my daughter two months ago to tinker around a bit. Decided to tackle my gripe to semi-automate updating my services when there is a new release.
Now I have Renovate running on my self-hosted Forgejo instance using Forgejo’s actions and a “Podman in Podman” image for its runners. Don’t ask me why I wanted to do a PINP instead of DIND - I guess I like to punish myself. But at least this means everything I deploy is running with Podman 😄
Did the switch from Docker to Podman a couple of months ago. Now I host all my services (arr-stack, Forgejo, Nextcloud, Authelia, Traefik, Immich… to name a few) on my VPS and mini pc/home server with Podman.
I recently sat up headscale to connect my VPS running the Traefik Proxy to my home lab to make some of my services running on there accessible from the internet. It was quite the journey, to say the least, as networking is not my forte either.
But feel free to drop me a pm if you need some inspiration or support, maybe I can help.
That’s where
UserNS=keep-id:uid=1000,gid=1000comes into play. It “maps” the containers’ user to your local user on the host to some extent, there is a deeper explanation of what exactly it does in this GitHub issue: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/24934Well the pod only links the container together, it’s not one systemd file. Every container has its own file, so does the pod and the network (separated by ‘—’ in my code block above). You still can start and stop each container as a service separately or just the whole pod with all containers linked to it. Pods have the advantage that the containers in them can talk to each other more easily.
The network I just created to separate my services from each other. Thinking of it, this was the old setup, as I started using gluetun and run it as a privileged container, it’s using the host network anyway. I edited my post above and removed the network unit file.
Nice, did the move from docker to podman a couple of months ago myself. Now running the arr stack, nextcloud, immich and some other services as quadlets. File permission due to podmans rootless nature usually was the culprit if something was not working properly.
I can share my quadlet systemd files I use for the arr stack. I deployed it as a pod:
[Unit] Description=Arr-stack pod [Pod] PodName=arr-stack # Jellyseerr Port Mapping PublishPort=8055:5055 # Sonarr Port Mapping PublishPort=8089:8989 # Radarr Port Mapping PublishPort=8078:7878 # Prowlarr Port Mapping PublishPort=8096:9696 # Flaresolverr Port Mapping PublishPort=8091:8191 # qBittorrent Port Mapping PublishPort=8080:8080 --- [Unit] Description=Gluetun Container [Container] ContainerName=gluetun EnvironmentFile=global.env EnvironmentFile=gluetun.env Environment=FIREWALL_INPUT_PORTS=8080 Image=docker.io/qmcgaw/gluetun:v3.40.0 Pod=arr-stack.pod AutoUpdate=registry PodmanArgs=--privileged AddCapability=NET_ADMIN AddDevice=/dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun Volume=%h/container_volumes/gluetun/conf:/gluetun:Z,U Secret=openvpn_user,type=env,target=OPENVPN_USER Secret=openvpn_password,type=env,target=OPENVPN_PASSWORD [Service] Restart=always [Install] WantedBy=default.target --- [Unit] Description=qBittorrent Container Requires=gluetun.service After=gluetun.service [Container] ContainerName=qbittorrent EnvironmentFile=global.env Environment=WEBUI_PORT=8080 Image=lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent:5.1.2 AutoUpdate=registry UserNS=keep-id:uid=1000,gid=1000 Pod=arr-stack.pod Network=container:gluetun Volume=%h/container_volumes/qbittorrent/conf:/config:Z,U Volume=%h/Downloads/completed:/downloads:z,U Volume=%h/Downloads/incomplete:/incomplete:z,U Volume=%h/Downloads/torrents:/torrents:z,U [Service] Restart=always [Install] WantedBy=default.target --- [Unit] Description=Prowlarr Container Requires=gluetun.service After=gluetun.service [Container] ContainerName=prowlarr EnvironmentFile=global.env Image=lscr.io/linuxserver/prowlarr:2.0.5 AutoUpdate=registry UserNS=keep-id:uid=1000,gid=1000 Pod=arr-stack.pod Network=container:gluetun HealthCmd=["curl","--fail","http://127.0.0.1:9696/prowlarr/ping"] HealthInterval=30s HealthRetries=10 Volume=%h/container_volumes/prowlarr/conf:/config:Z,U [Service] Restart=always [Install] WantedBy=default.target --- [Unit] Description=Flaresolverr Container [Container] ContainerName=flaresolverr EnvironmentFile=global.env Image=ghcr.io/flaresolverr/flaresolverr:v3.4.0 AutoUpdate=registry Pod=arr-stack.pod Network=container:gluetun [Service] Restart=always [Install] WantedBy=default.target --- [Unit] Description=Radarr Container [Container] ContainerName=radarr EnvironmentFile=global.env Image=lscr.io/linuxserver/radarr:5.27.5 AutoUpdate=registry UserNS=keep-id:uid=1000,gid=1000 Pod=arr-stack.pod Network=container:gluetun HealthCmd=["curl","--fail","http://127.0.0.1:7878/radarr/ping"] HealthInterval=30s HealthRetries=10 # Disable SecurityLabels due to SMB share SecurityLabelDisable=true Volume=%h/container_volumes/radarr/conf:/config:Z,U Volume=/mnt/movies:/movies Volume=%h/Downloads/completed/radarr:/downloads:z,U [Service] Restart=always [Install] WantedBy=default.target --- [Unit] Description=Sonarr Container [Container] ContainerName=sonarr EnvironmentFile=global.env Image=lscr.io/linuxserver/sonarr:4.0.15 AutoUpdate=registry UserNS=keep-id:uid=1000,gid=1000 Pod=arr-stack.pod Network=container:gluetun HealthCmd=["curl","--fail","http://127.0.0.1:8989/sonarr/ping"] HealthInterval=30s HealthRetries=10 # Disable SecurityLabels due to SMB share SecurityLabelDisable=true Volume=%h/container_volumes/sonarr/conf:/config:Z,U Volume=/mnt/tv:/tv Volume=%h/Downloads/completed/sonarr:/downloads:z,U [Service] Restart=always [Install] WantedBy=default.target --- [Unit] Description=Jellyseerr Container [Container] ContainerName=jellyseerr EnvironmentFile=global.env Image=docker.io/fallenbagel/jellyseerr:2.7.3 AutoUpdate=registry Pod=arr-stack.pod Network=container:gluetun Volume=%h/container_volumes/jellyseerr/conf:/app/config:Z,U [Service] Restart=always [Install] WantedBy=default.targetI run my podman containers in a VM running Alma Linux. Works pretty great so far.
Had the same issue when debugging systemctl errors, journalctl not being very helpful. At one point I just ran
podman logs -f <container>in another terminal in a while loop just to catch the logs of the application. Not the most sophisticated approach, but it works 😄
Nice, did the same for some services I run at home. Now in the process of migrating my stuff on my vps from docker compose to quadlets. It’s a bit more involved but worth the QoL stuff quadlets bring with them, like automatic updates and systemd integration. I’m curious, which is your Linux distro of choice to run your podman quadlets on?
If your router allows it you can set your gateway IP from the router (i.e. 192.168.1.1) as the second DNS address in the DHCP settings. So your routers DNS settings would then act as fail over in case your pi-hole is down. That’s at least how I have done it on my ISP router.
4·2 years agoNtfy can act as an email server if you configure it. So if an application is not supporting ntfy directly but email, you can go that route. Ntfy will then simply forward the email as push notification. Its also pretty simple to set up, used this as a workaround because authelia doesn’t support it directly. Here is the link to the specific ntfy documentation: https://docs.ntfy.sh/config/#e-mail-publishing
I used the local variant (https://docs.ntfy.sh/config/#local-only-email) which does not require any DNS entries, as I only use it for sending notifications between my self hosted containers (all on the same host).
I love the idea! I was actually thinking about building something like a baby monitor with cameras instead of just buying one, so your comment further inspires me to follow up on that. May I ask what camera you were using?