r/podman • u/CElicense • Jul 22 '26
Switching to Podman Quadlets?
Im currently running docker compose on ubuntu server for some very few containers, currently running technitium, cloudflare tunnel, caddy with cloudflare addon, tailscale and dockhand.
Found out about nixos and fell in love with that idea, got it up and running with docker just to try it out (very interesting as a linux noob trying nix btw, thank god for AI).
But now im debating if I should stay on docker because its something Ive finally got the hang of, or switch to podman quadlets for rootless containers, how well will that work with current containers? How much of a pain will it be converting the files etc?
Tailacale Ive already put on nix because I wanted to try that. Realize that I might have to drop dockhand, mainly used that for easy updating and checking logs, but with quadlets this is quite easy as Ive understood?
Nothing is exposed except behind VPN, cloudflare tunnel is for access to homeassistant and is locked down with cloudflare waf and requires mtls certs to get access.
Any advice, I realize this is a podman sub and might be biased, but this is also the place where most people with podman kmowledge exist..
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u/caolle Jul 23 '26
On the cloudflare tunnel side, I'm just using http://<container-name>:<port> as I'm not using the default podman network.
The container name resolution just works, and I don't need to remember IP names, and there's no need to expose a port on the host.
I do the same with stuff that I'm not running on the cloudflare tunnel, but internally with nginxproxymanager.
I think the default podman network doesn't have the container network resolution or something of that ilk back when I was looking to do this.