Rootless containers with Podman

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Demonstrates running Home Assistant and Mosquitto MQTT as true non-root containers using Podman, showing that containers can be created, started and managed by unprivileged users; requires slirp4netns, subuid/subgid configuration and systemd unit files; Podman 1.6.4 is the minimum but Podman 2.x is recommended; RHEL 8.1 has rootless issues that are resolved by RHEL 8.2; build workflow uses Buildah and Skopeo and interoperates with Cri-o.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:52Container Standards: Runtime interfaces
3. 4:01Why rootless containers?
4. 6:15Why Should I Care?
5. 8:26Be the customer
6. 9:59Rootless Options
7. 11:33Rootless Requirements
8. 13:15Hass container
9. 14:13MQTT
10. 15:14Good/Bad/Frustrating
11. 17:37References

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