Podman

I’ve been thinking to upgrade my Nextcloud service also switching to another alternative rather than docker, hence I used podman and buildah in my solution. From the rockylinux.org I found a nice post where it describes how to build and provisioning by using buildah and podman, it works pretty good and I added a tool in order to run it faster, called taskfile. Requirements: Podman Buildah Taskfile Install taskfile Clone my project From the project you can see the task defined: version: "3" tasks: up-db: dir: "db/mariadb" preconditions: - test -f db-init.sh cmds: - bash db-init.sh create-app: dir: "app" preconditions: - test -f run.sh cmds: - mkdir nc nc/nextcloud nc/apps nc/config nc/data - task: up-db - bash run.sh build_base: dir: "db/base" preconditions: - test -f build.sh cmds: - bash build.sh build_tools: dir: "db/db-tools" preconditions: - test -f build.sh cmds: - bash build.sh build_maria: dir: "db/mariadb" preconditions: - test -f build.sh cmds: - bash build.sh build_db: cmds: - task: build_base - task: build_tools - task: build_maria up-app: cmds: - podman container start nextcloud Main task to build and run nextcloud: ...

Part I - I’m learning Gitlab Runner and how them works on CI implementation. GitLab Runner is an application that works with GitLab CI to run jobs in a pipeline, they are written in GO Summary the task I will do: Install Gitlab-runner as container(podman). Runner registration. Enter the GitLab instance URL registration token. runner description. tags. Select an executor. Create a gitlab-ci.yml Install runner: Create the Volume: podman volume create gitlab-runner-config Pull and start the container by register command, then we will prompt the data need for register the runner into the project. ...

On this new entry I will share a briefly installation step by step by using Toolbox at Fedora 34 to use the hcloud-cli. Due we do not have an official package on fedora git-repo yet, hence we can create this container. Pre-requirement: Visit Hetzner Cloud Console at https://console.hetzner.cloud, select your project, and create a new API Token. Let’s start: 1- Create a file named Dockerfile.debian with the following contents(the following image is made to use a script to named and set a token_key): ...

Into my Devops learning path 👨‍💻 I decided to deploy a monitoring centre into my workstation where I could be able to watch my containers, resources, logs, etc and continue improving my knowledge, in my case I’m using Silverblue developed by Fedora so in here it’s a little bit different the setup; as monitoring tool I choose Cockpit for its great integration and support. Workstation: Silverblue 🖥️ Container engine: Podman ⚙️ Monitoring tool(app/service):Cockpit 📦 I splinted out the instructions in 4 simple parts: ...