How do you set up a server? Do you do any automation or do you just open up an SSH session and YOLO? Any containers? Is docker-compose enough for you or are you one of those unicorns who had no issues whatsoever with rootless Podman? Do you use any premade scripts or do you hand craft it all? What distro are you building on top of?
I’m currently in process of “building” my own server and I’m kinda wondering how “far” most people are going, where do y’all take any shortcuts, and what do you spend effort getting just right.
I’d like to use rootless podman, but since I include zerotier in my containers, they need access to the tunnel device and net_admin, so rootless isn’t an option right now.
Podman-compose works for me. I’d like to learn how to use Ansible and Kubernetes, but right now, it’s just my Lemmy VPS and my Raspberry Pi 4, so I don’t have much need for automation at the moment. Maybe some day.
You can add net_admin to the user running podman, I have added it to the ambient capability mask before, which acts like an inherited override for everything the user runs.
Super interesting to me that you switch between Debian and Ubuntu. Is there any rhyme or reason to when you use one over the other?