Yesterday, before I had a seizure again induced by the growing brain lesions, I found out that my home server is out of date :(. It’s set up for a baseline of stability ergo proxmox/debian 12 which comes with podman 4.3 as part of the software repository.
There is/was complexity in managing these configurations (I was using a makefile to pass parameters between my dev makefile and production podman/systemd files) but even in podman 4.3 there was so much functionality to build from like auto-updates. However, coming back to this (and ignoring the stability features of my home server repository manager it’d be nice to upgrade from podman 4.3 to 4.7. It would improve my access to simpler files for containers, networks, and volumes, should support existing features like like auto-updates (when pulling from a repository with a dynamic tag) and what truly kicked off this investigation for me updatable and rotating secrets (trying to improve and fix my backup solution without forking out additional money whilst improving my underlying security mental model (given it’s all file based the practical parts of the security for a private home server probably remain constant).
Anyway, it’s fun projects like these I get to continue with in my spare time provided a) treatment goes well and b) the overall impact on my functional brain remains limited enough such that I can function similarly to how I was/am prior to stereotactic radiosurgery.
Link to podman/quadlet article
— LostLetterbox