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How to start podman compose containers on system boot? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 months ago by dudesss@lemmy.ca to c/podman@programming.dev
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With docker-compose, containers would start on boot. It was maybe because I had restart: always on.

Is there a way something similar with podman-compose?

I see mentions of creating custom systemd scripts to run podman-compose to start containers, but is there something already baked in podman-compose that I can use?

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[–] Feyd@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You're looking for podlets

[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This looks great! But I'm seeing here that it hasn't been updated since November 2024.

https://github.com/containers/podlet

[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Any idea how I can get Quadlet to start on system boot?

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This worked! I searched through so many threads trying to find an answer, and this was the answer. Thank you so much. I only needed the below text added to my ~/.config/containers/systemd/my-custom-quadlet.container. Nice and simple:

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
[–] Feyd@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Happy to help! Arch wiki is often a great resource even when using other distros