I've been on holiday in Japan for a bit over a week with my family. I really like it here. Some noteworthy things:
1. Everyone talks about this, but the variety and quality of food available in convenience stores - 7 11, etc. - is truly astounding. I wondered if perhaps it was highly processed, low quality, etc., but it really isn't. I hate cooking enough that if I lived here, I reckon I'd never cook again. 😂
2. Overall, people are much quieter and more considerate here. Even in relatively crowded spaces where I'm used to it being super loud - public transport, train stations, shopping centres, crowded streets, etc. - it's just so much quieter.
3. The bathrooms are so clean! Men's bathrooms in a lot of countries, including Australia, are often pretty smelly and awful. I've not experienced that once here. It just goes to show that it *is* possible for people to not behave like animals in public bathrooms if they want to. This seems to be an extension of people being generally more considerate overall.
4. My (albeit limited) experience is that there are far more physical buttons, far less ridiculous and unnecessary touch interfaces and much more use of braille and tactile markings on buttons. Unfortunately, I can't read Japanese braille, so this hasn't been as helpful as it could have been, but that's my fault. :)
5. Mobility accesssibility for blind people is probably better overall, but with some notable absences. Train announcements are consistent and super helpful, plus there are audible indications like music, bird sounds, etc. to aid with navigation and location, assuming you know what they mean. (I haven't figured them out yet.) Some escalators, elevators, bathrooms, etc. have audible indicators to help you find them. There are tactile ground markers all over the place, though of course they're still only useful if you have some sense of where you need to go. On the flip side, I've seen very few audible trafic lights, and the ones I have seen are far too subtle, difficult to locate and hard to distinguish. This lack seems kinda strange given how far ahead Japan is in those other areas. Australia is far more consistent and practical in this one area IMO.
6. The public transport system is incredible; frequent, fast, efficient. To be fair, I live in Brisbane, so any decent public transport system impresses me.
in production for years now, and I don't miss the Docker daemon one bit.
mmu_man
in reply to Larvitz • • •Larvitz
in reply to mmu_man • • •GitHub - cockpit-project/cockpit-podman: Cockpit UI for podman containers
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in reply to Larvitz • • •oldsysops
in reply to mmu_man • • •Markus Lindenberg
in reply to Larvitz • • •shom
in reply to Larvitz • • •Quick question if you don't mind; I have a separate container running user and put the unit files in
~/.config/systemd/user/instead. You suggest~/.config/containers/systemd/which seems to make sense as a path but I was hoping to understand the difference better. Could you please point me to a resource?Larvitz
in reply to shom • • •@shom
~/.config/systemd/user/ is for systmd units (podman generate systemd). That was the old way to do it.
~/.config/containers/systemd/ is for Quadlet files, the modern way to describe containers declaratively:
docs.podman.io/en/latest/markd…
Quadlets files are similar to Systemd units and describe a container with all it's attributes.
podman-systemd.unit — Podman documentation
docs.podman.ioandrew
in reply to Larvitz • • •another person of culture I see…/me tips hat
I’ve been operating with a mixture of quadlets and manual podman-compose containers for quite some time. I’ve found compatibility issues with some projects, but I decided those do not justify switching to docker. There’s also an annoying race condition with CNI coming up before networkmanager, but manual fix is easy enough for those times.
Great blog post! Thanks
Larvitz
in reply to andrew • • •o/1MS\o ⌨️🐧 | #WeAreNatenom
in reply to Larvitz • • •It can be found at the examples.
docs.podman.io/en/latest/markd…
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loginctl enable-linger <USER>
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podman-system-service — Podman documentation
docs.podman.iowoodsb02
in reply to Larvitz • • •Rootless Podman with Ephemeral User · containers podman · Discussion #28445
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in reply to Larvitz • • •I never went beyond podman compose because I couldn't really find beginner-friendly examples on how to use Quadlets in production, so this is a great reference on how to get started.
Ilkka Tengvall
in reply to Larvitz • • •Kayla Eilhart (en)
in reply to Larvitz • • •amazing guide, thanks for that! I started to write something similar last year, but never got far.
I quickly skimmed it and I have one practical tip though: It would be good to add how to create a service user, configure lingering, set XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and check if podman is working properly (including reboots, in some cases podman falls back to keep running data on file system which is persistent, not temporary, and refuses to start) - you'd never guess how I struggled with it a few years ago when I was starting with podman on a remote VM over ssh.
And I especially thank you for showing the traefik approach! I'm now manually configuring nginx, and it's quite a boring task.
rhempel
in reply to Larvitz • • •Now I know what I'll be reading tomorrow!
I made the switch about two years ago and use Podman for embedded systems development. It's much easier than spinning up a VM and combined with VSCodium makes a nice IDE that allows remote debugging.