Simplifying container orchestration with Ansible and Podman
summary
Argues that for small-scale deployments Kubernetes is overkill and shows a concrete alternative: Ansible plus Podman using the container.podman collection (29 modules) to place concise systemd-backed container units (example unit is three lines) and manage them via quadlet integration for declarative restart, dependencies and env/volume mapping; demonstrates Podman consuming ~90% of Kubernetes object YAML so the same spec can run on Podman or k8s, reports this runs in production on a few physical servers/VMs and at least three vendor customers.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Containers and Ansible matter
- 1:25Kubernetes overkill
- 3:53Podman beats Docker
- 5:18Ansible modules for Podman
- 6:23Systemd as container manager
- 8:53Quadlet simplifies Podman
- 11:20Basic Quadlet example
- 12:27Automate Quadlet with Ansible
- 14:13Advanced Quadlet features
- 17:01Kubernetes objects in Podman
- 19:31Reuse configs across platforms
- 20:57Wrap-up and choices
- 22:01Q&A
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