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A practical guide to Quadlet - where unit files go, what every section does, how networks and volumes are wired, building images declaratively, auto-updates, and the specific errors that waste the most time. Includes the rootless requirements nobody mentions.
Part 3 of a journey learning how I set up my first VPS on Debian 13 Minimal. Getting rootless Podman working properly - the packages Debian Minimal leaves out, UID mapping, lingering, privileged ports, and running a first container as a systemd Quadlet service.
A practical comparison after actually running both - the daemon versus fork-exec model, what rootless containers really protect you from, why systemd integration mattered more than I expected, and the cases where Docker is still the right answer.