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I just posted my notes on bringing up a Mastodon node using podman and docker-compose to orchestrate podman. They are based on my previous documentation for using docker and docker-compose, but a few things are different.

I also updated the original to match.

musings.danlj.org/2022/11/12/m

Please respond with comments or questions. I don't know it all, but I'll help if I can!

mkj’s musingsDeploying Mastodon on CentOS 9 and derivatives with podmanAfter setting up Maker Forums Social runnning Mastodon on docker, I volunteered to deploy Aviating.com Social as well. This time, instead of using docker, I built on podman.
Michael K Johnson
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I deployed social.aviating.com with podman, learning from deploying social.makerforums.info on docker. There's a distinct possibility that I'll take a 30 minute or so downtime at some point (with notice!) to migrate social.makerforums.info to podman.

Sam Hetchler (Kg6hxm)
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@mcdanlj Can you give me some insight here: podman is a Linux docker-type manager?

Michael K Johnson
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@kg6hxm podman is an alternative to docker with a different security model. Instead of a single privileged daemon, it has individual utilities. I like its security model better than docker's.

It comes as the out of the box default on Red Hat's various Linux distributions, and they were the primary initial authors.

Sam Hetchler (Kg6hxm)
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@mcdanlj Excellent. I'm going to set up my server box and have been trying to learn different VM-type systems that are available. I've already learned a lot from this instance and the infosec one that jerry [at] infosec.exchange is running and documenting.

Michael K Johnson
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@kg6hxm my docs are both for single-machine deployments. I would be using Kubernetes ("k8s") to set up a multi-system deployment. There's plenty of opportunity here to learn! 😁

Scottish Lass
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@mcdanlj Thanks for taking the time to write this up. Tremendously helpful👏