Docker

What prompted this blog post? So if like myself, you’ve got a large number of openSUSE machines on your network, it can be advantageous to run a local mirror, for updates. And it just so happens that one of the openSUSE developers, firstyear, has put together a nifty caching server that really speeds all this up, the proxy-cache itself isn’t the point of this blog post, but if you want to know more, you can find it at: opensuse-proxy-cache ...

So if you’re anything like me, you’re aware that tools like Docker and Podman exist, which allow you to run containers on your host. Simple enough. You might also be aware of things like Docker Compose and Quadlets for automated management and bring up of those containers. Problem is, I had a pretty stupid simple little container that I wanted to bring together, and have running on a server. And for the life of me, I couldn’t find a relatively simple “How-To” online to do what I wanted to. All of the offerings that I found were dealing with big pre-built containers for things like Wordpress that have multiple containers, and setup pods, and such. All overkill and more complicated than I needed. ...