Ansible Role podman on Galaxy

The Ansible role head1328.podman is now published on Ansible Galaxy . It’s the base role for all Podman-based setups on Raspberry Pi OS / Debian Trixie - other roles (head1328.pihole, head1328.ivly, …) build on top of it.

What It Does

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• Installs and configures Podman on Debian 13 (Trixie)
• Enables user lingering so rootless containers can run as Quadlets under systemd --user, even without an active SSH session
• Ships sane defaults for rootless Podman (networking, subuid/subgid)
• Tweakable via defaults/main.yml

What It’s For

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As a building block for any container workload on the Pi:

• DNS filtering with head1328.pihole
• AI stack with head1328.hailo_ollama
• Self-hosted apps like head1328.ivly

If you’d rather wire things up manually: there’s a matching tutorial - Podman on the Raspberry Pi .

Installation

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ansible-galaxy role install head1328.podman

License

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AGPL-3.0-or-later. Issues and forks welcome.

Acknowledgments

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• Podman - daemonless container runtime
• Ansible - configuration management
• Ansible Galaxy - role registry
• Molecule - testing framework for Ansible roles