Managing container-based systemd services

In this section, you will learn how to use the podman generate systemd command through a practical example. We will create two system services based on containers to create a GIT repository.

For this example, we will leverage two well-known open source projects:

• Gitea: The GIT repository, which also offers a nice web interface for code management
• MariaDB: The SQL database for holding the data that's produced by the Gitea service

Let's start with the example. First, we need to generate a password for our database's user:

# export MARIADB_PASSWORD=my-secret-pw
# podman secret create --env MARIADB_PASSWORD
53149b678d0dbd34fb56800cc

Here, we exported the environment variable with the secret password we are going to use and then leveraged a useful secrets management command that we did not introduce previously: podman secret create. Unfortunately, this command holds the secret in plain text, though this...