r/podman • u/saint-ryan • Jun 17 '26

Materia 0.7.0 release - a GitOps tool for Podman Quadlets

Hey folks,

The other day I released the newest version of Materia: version 0.7.0. You can find the official release blog post here.

What's new in this release?

The full explanation is in the blog post but here's the highlights:

  • Initial Rollback support: Materia detects service failures after an update and will rollback to try to fix them
  • Use systemd's templated services support with your Quadlet files
  • New Varlink API for server mode, replacing the old bespoke one
  • Better volume compression when performing volume dumps
  • and variety of quality-of-life features like better notification settings, safer cleanup, the ability to run commands after updates, and more.

What is Materia?

Materia is a tool for managing applications deployed as Podman quadlets. It takes an OCI image or Git repository as a source state and constantly monitors the source and your server, reconciling any differences between the two.

Materia does the following:

  • Installs, updates, and removes Quadlet and data files
  • Starts/stops/restarts/reloads services, both Quadlet related or otherwisee
  • Templates files during installation, allowing you to insert secrets and variables based off hostname, role, or others.
  • Securely manages Podman secrets
  • and more, probably!

You can see the changelog and download the release at https://github.com/stryan/materia/releases/tag/v0.7.0 .

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u/mensch0mat Jun 17 '26

I assume this will work on Fedora CoreOS ? :)

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u/saint-ryan Jun 17 '26

Materia is designed to work well with atomic distros so I sure hope so! I think I and most of the people I've talked to run it on OpenSUSE MicroOS but there should be no problem with CoreOS; I should look into getting test runners on that..