May 6 · 9 min read · Resize a Tiny SLES 16 Cloud Image with qemu:base on Ubuntu 26.04 Quick one-liner: The SLES 16 minimal cloud image boots fast, but it left me with about 3 MB free. That is not enough room to do real work, so we resize it on our brand new qemu:base. �...
Join discussionMay 4 · 4 min read · Look, the container runtime world is shifting. Development teams spread across Poland, Argentina, Vietnam, and beyond are quietly swapping Docker for Podman and other OCI-compliant options. The results speak for themselves: production workloads see 1...
Join discussionApr 23 · 5 min read · KVM on Podman Networking Quick one-liner: Two networking modes for KVM in Podman — container-native (private) and bridge (full network). Each serves different use cases. 🤔 Why This Matters Your VMs need to talk to something — containers, the host, ...
Join discussionApr 19 · 8 min read · 🐳 Run Your First Podman Container: Images, Lifecycle, and Flags (2026) Quick one-liner: Pull images, run containers, manage their lifecycle, and understand the flags that make Podman different from Docker. 🤔 Why This Matters In Ep 1, you installed...
Join discussionApr 15 · 14 min read · Boot in Seconds: Cloud Images + cloud-init Quick one-liner: Skip the installer entirely — download a pre-built cloud image, seed it with cloud-init, and boot a fully configured VM in seconds. 💡 Why This Matters Post #3 proved persistence works, but...
Join discussionApr 6 · 9 min read · Podman on SLES 16: Installation, Storage, and First Rootless Container (2026 Guide) Quick one-liner: Install Podman on SLES 16 from the installation DVD, set up shared multi-user storage on a dedicated disk, and run your first rootless container — no...
Join discussionApr 1 · 6 min read · Persistent VMs in Podman: Install Alpine to a Disk Image Quick one-liner: Create a qcow2 disk image with qemu-img, install Alpine Linux into it, and boot from disk — so your VM survives container restarts. Why This Matters Post #2 proved that KVM ha...
Join discussionMar 30 · 6 min read · KVM Acceleration in a Rootless Podman Container: Before and After Quick one-liner: Pass /dev/kvm into your Podman container, boot Alpine Linux with -nographic, and time the difference between software emulation and hardware acceleration. Why This Ma...
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