Comment by stryan

I've been working on getting another major release out for my side project Materia[0], hopefully by or on the solstice. Materia is a GitOps continuous delivery tool for Podman quadlets: it handles installing/removing/updating files, installing secrets, restarting services and dependencies, rolling back failed updates, and more. I've been working on this for almost two years now and am pretty happy with how its coming along and the growing user base. Plus it's been a fun excuse to try out some new things, like creating a Varlink API or different CI/CD setups.

Besides Materia itself I've been bouncing around some other ideas for the Podman quadlet ecosystem. The biggest one is Athanor[1], which re-uses the same plan-execute system and primitives provided by Materia to backup Podman volumes.

I've also been kicking around a clustering system for Podman volumes called Firmament that uses Serf and the built-in Podman import/export API to move volumes to where they need to be in the cluster. But this will probably wait until Materia hits 1.0 before I really start putting effort into it. Or if my homelab needs something like it, whichever comes first :).

[0] https://github.com/stryan/materia ,main site https://primamateria.systems [0] https://github.com/stryan/athanor