This is no longer true as of Podman 5 and Quadlet?
You can define rootless containers to run under systemd services as unprivileged users. You can use machinectl to login as said user and interact with systemctl.
You can define rootless containers to run under systemd services as unprivileged users. You can use machinectl to login as said user and interact with systemctl.
This is a good example [1], cited elsewhere in this post.
Documentation for quadlet systemd units [2].
[0]: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/quadlet-podman
[1]: https://mo8it.com/blog/quadlet/
[2]: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.uni...