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One of the reasons I got myself a home server is so that I can learn about containers. I’ve just got my first one set up, and as this was my first ‘rodeo’ it certainly took a while, but it turned out to be really quite easy in the end. So, here’s how I did it, and just as importantly - also what I learned. podman and quadlet I decided that I wanted to see if I could run a Minecraft server on my home server - because, why not? I’ve never had anything to do with containers before. However, I’m not an expert, but looking through the MicroOS docs I knew that I needed to use podman, which is like Docker, and that it came pre-installed on MicroOS. Later on, I realized that there was another app called quadlets - it’s now deprecated and merged into Podman since version 4.4 - that has really good functionality that I should use. ...

I’ve been thinking about what I can blog about during the whole month of May for WeblogPoMo 24 - it does start tomorrow after all! I think that I’ll mostly be blogging about getting my genealogy blog set-up, along with perhaps my own personal mastodon instance - the two will be related. I really do need to do something with my genealogy blog, which currently is practically non-existent. So, this is a good excuse to do something about it. ...