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How to start podman compose containers on system boot? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by 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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[–] 5 points 10 months ago

Not something baked-in, no, since the entire point of podman is that it's server- (service-)less.

However they do have a command to manually launch the respective user's podman manager, which IIRC is podman system service -t0 (note: runs in the foreground) so if you add that to a service entry (eg.: via runit user units or systemd user scopes) or just launch it via your user crontab's @reboot, it should work without issues.

This is literally my runit user unit for podman:

#!/bin/sh
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
exec podman system service -t0
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