My earlier post on Podman Quadlet showed how to install Podman Quadlet, but included secrets as plain text in the container file. This isn’t exactly the best practice for handling secrets. Podman has a built in secrets management utility that integrates with the Quadlet containers.
I have been working on a bot for the social network Bluesky. My initial effort was non-interactive. I used a Cloudflare Worker with a Cron trigger to post a random road sign picture every day. I wanted to learn how to make the bot respond to “@mentions” with various commands. This would mean having to host the bot in a slightly different way. Instead of it being a serverless application, I would want to either listen to a stream of events, or poll on a fairly regular caedance to check for updates. I will post details about the bot at a later date.