Autostarting, auto-updating, rootless Podman containers

I doubt I’ll be alone when I say that my server setup is a mess. It is a monolith of different services slammed together on the same machine. Some run on the bare metal, some run in a VM, some run in containers. Recently I put some work into migrating my applications away from bare metal and into containers. While that effort is not complete just yet, it has already broken on me after podman-compose stopped creating pods per compose file....

January 16, 2022 · 7 min · Rick

Windows 10 on old Macs without Boot Camp

Installing Windows 10 on older Macs is still possible but may be tricky because Apple doesn’t officially support this. Boot Camp Assistant has an internal list of Windows 7-only Macs in its Info.plist. With some hackery and foolery you therefore are able to trick it into installing Windows 10 on an otherwise unsupported Mac. Partially. I prefer to take the manual route and taking full control over this process. There are a number of hurdles to overcome....

February 28, 2021 · 8 min · Rick