[Podman] Re: Reliable service starts

On 2023-02-03T09:19:44 +0100 Valentin Rothberg <vrothberg(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Thanks for reaching out. > > I suggest using `podman generate systemd` to generate a systemd unit. > There's also a new way of running Podman inside of systemd called Quadlet > that ships with the just released Podman v4.4. A blog about that topic is > in the pipeline. > > Given the complexity of running Podman in systemd, `podman generate > systemd` and Quadlet are the only supported ways. > > In your case, I suggest removing `podman pull` from the service. In > contrast to `podman pull`, `podman run` won't redundantly pull the image if > it's already in the local storage. That will relax the network bottleneck. Thanks, I'll look into this. The systemd unit shown in my example is actually already generated from a template (which is then included as part of the CoreOS ignition file). I assume I won't have to run "podman generate systemd" on the target machine? Can I run that on my local development machine and then upload the results to the machine that will actually run the service?

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