Hello again!

Recently had made a post where y’all helped me out as a noob setting up a server. One comment in particular gave me an idea and now I’m wondering if this would work and would it perhaps be easier to do, since I’ve had trouble figuring out how to (safely) set up the remote connection stuff.

I installed Fedora Kiinoite on the server/htpc and was learning how to use Podman since I don’t want to go through the trouble of using Os-tree.

But it just occurred to - would it work if I used Gnome Boxes to run Cosmos Cloud and run all the services I want to remotely connect to from there? Or would there be an issue since it’s a VM? Cosmos Cloud seems to make it easy to securely remotely connect, and it uses containers too.

  • statelesz@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    13 hours ago

    What is it you’re actually trying to accomplish? Connect remote services to your self-hosted cloud?

    • Hezaethos@piefed.zipOPEnglish
      1·
      13 hours ago

      yes, so something like nextcloud for example. But also I currently am using the machine to stream Qobuz (we have 2 years free is why) and to run VacuumTube. I also want to set up the Arrstack on it.

      So basically for things like Nextcloud or Immich, I was wondering if it would be easier to use Cosmos Cloud on a Debian VM than it would you set it up through Podman, such they don’t recommend anyhow

      • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        9 hours ago

        I run podman containers on my bazzite machines, basically you convert a docker-compose file to a .container file, here’s a bunch of examples, nextcloud is there, drop it in ~/.config/containers and run systemctl daemon-reload and it’s now a systemd unit that you start stop etc like any other. Updates are with podman autoupdate.

        You can use podlet to convert docker-compose files (90% it works, otherwise it gets you 90% of the way there). It’s basically the fedora (/redhat) way to run containers.

        I have no idea where you got it not being recommended (but adding to the main image sure is discouraged), and it’s certainly better than adding a vm for containers, which pretty much defeats the purpose of containers (to run using your main kernel, but contained).

        I’ve been running my arr stack (with gluetun in a pod) etc this way for years now, very trouble free. Here’s a immich example.

        It’s a bit of a learning curve, but it pays off.