astraluma @astraluma@cybre.space

tl;dr: I'm real excited to start using podman.

I can rewrite SaltLab (my tool for playing with and developing on SaltStack) to use podman, making it safer and easier to use.

I can make a tool that guarantees clean builds and tests.

I can better manage the local copies of services because backend dev yo.

And I can do all this with the comfort that nothing gets permissions to my system, and nothing conflicts.

Like, Docker isn't in any repo, and the `docker` group is the same level of permissions as wheel/sudoers/admin. Not a great story if you want to make tools for daily use based on them.

Enter podman.

Podman enables rootless containers, that is: containers without needing to be root, so any user can just spin one up. It's more easily packaged; I can reasonably add it to distro repos (and it's already in fedora, because they wrote it) and then depend on it.

This is a game changer

Ok, so I'm working on packaging Podman for debian, and I think it's one of the coolest pieces of software released in a while. Why? Because I think it's going to up-end containers for small jobs.

Ok, so docker/kubernetes/etc is doing Container Computing pretty well. Need to deploy and scale an application to handle hundreds of thousands of users? They've got stories there.

Want to use a container for your local dev environment? Help with clean builds? They start to fall apart.

@violet why yes, I am white and have zero energy

I got my zipapp xonsh finished up and salt configs written, so it's deploying across my homelab.

It's not as buttery-smooth as I'd like, but it works well enough.

Btw, isolated zipapp is the best way to ship python applications, if you can assume the destination has python and you have no native code.

Back on my bullshit. Making a python zipapp packer.

So I can ship xonsh as a single-file, isolated application.

Just pride things: in line to park in my Subaru Forester, behind another Subaru Forester

Witchy pride vibes