podman: could not insert 'ip_tables'

[BennyP]

I'd like to run the nextcloud all-in-one container with podman (quadlet / systemd) on gentoo. I've more-or-less successfully run this on fedora silverblue in the recent past.

I have this unit file at ~/.config/systemd/user/nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer.container

[shimitar]

Check here: https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=gentoo:containers

Gentoo is not very Podman friendly, i guess not many gentooers like contaiers, and i do understand why. I don't lke them myself but podman is much better choice than docker anyway.

In my experience, you might have to manually load the nat module for iptables (just doing a "iptables -L nat" should be enough) before starting your container. Also, if the container has some explicitly network named, you might want to create it as root before.

Honestly tough, Nextcloud is not hard to run on bare metal, i do maintain one instance on bare metal and really took little effort to install on Apache.
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[BennyP]

Thanks for the link, that was an interesting read. I can certainly sympathize with the "containers bad" idea in the article, as you said many gentooers value a "bare metal" approach. In my case however, there are some other values at play: like the portability and ease of maintenance which the article mentions. But more than that, my learning goals at the moment are focused on learning podman and containers, moreso than learning the particular characteristics of nextcloud admin. The author made a point about learning which I might paraphrase as "containers are bad because they abstract away some sysadmin stuff, and admins should have to learn everything always if they want to git gud". I suppose there's some sense to that, but the abstract nature of containers lets admins learn things in chunks, focusing on one aspect of the system at a time.

Ultimately, i solved this problem by loading the ip_tables module.