So, I’ve finally gotten a comfortable setup for my beautiful podman quadlets, its a simple debian system, heavily systemd reliant, and I’m curious about how yall admin such a thing, I’ve got a couple of scripts to create users, skel the home directories, and templates for services.
I’m particularly curious about handling subids, I’m pretty careful about them and not using too too many, mostly for being afraid of running out of them lol. But from what I’ve seen, linux allows you to go real stupid with it, like having a shitton of range and entrances.
I personally give my quad users like 500 subids to work with and they generally work fine, it really depends on if I’m gonna have more than one service running on them or not.


excellent solution, just have root container to --user and use the auto userns, had no idea about that, sounds super convenient. Much more self contained, just let the program do its thing, I had no idea about userns=auto with root, tysm for ur input!! :)
I added examples so you don’t have to dig as far if you want to give it a try!
this is incredible thank you very much, I will read through this once I have more energy lmao, this looks like okay dense content, very interesting