Over the years, I've spent some of my time replacing all of my older docker tooling with podman and running all my containers on the user level through systemd quadlets.

This transition wasn't easy. I encountered plenty of interesting challenges that lead to a lot of workarounds to get things in a state I was happy with. Now, I'm trying to focus on:

• Hardening security
• Finding adequate replacements for tools that run okay in podman but are more suited for docker
• Replacing my current DNS service with something a bit more robust

One of my more exciting projects involved packing an old Half-Life 1 mod into an alpine image and getting it to connect to the steam network.