I’m moving to a new machine soon and want to re-evaluate some security practices while I’m doing it. My current server is debian with all apps containerized in docker with root. I’d like to harden some stuff, especially vaultwarden but I’m concerned about transitioning to podman while using complex docker setups like nextcloud-aio. Do you have experience hardening your containers by switching? Is it worth it? How long is a piece of string?

  • ilmagico@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    1 month ago

    Was this with podman or rootless docker?

    I also would like to switch to rootless, I have some experience with podman and, while I generally like it, it’s not 100% compatible with (rootful) docker, and can have performance issues if you’re not careful, especiallt with certain file systems like btrfs. I wonder if rootless docker is now better than podman, or preferred for some other reason.

    • asap@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      1 month ago

      Rootless Podman :) It requires you to learn a little bit of new syntax, for example, the way you mount volumes and pass environment variables can be slightly different, but there’s nothing that hasn’t worked for me.

      I’m using this on uBlue uCore, which I would also strongly recommend for security reasons.

      • bigdickdonkey@lemmy.caOPEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Can you expand on why you chose uCore? I was considering CoreOS until just now and the idea of setting up ignition config serving seems overkill for running only one server at home. ignition is still required the same way as CoreOS

        • asap@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          Mainly for security. I was originally looking at CoreOS but I liked the additional improvements by the UBlue team. Since I only want it to run containers, it is a huge security benefit to be immutable and designed specifically for that workflow.

          The Ignition file is super easy to do, even for just one server (substitute docker for podman depending which you have):

          Take a copy of the UCore butane file:

          https://github.com/ublue-os/ucore/blob/main/examples/ucore-autorebase.butane

          Update it with your SSH public key and a password hash by using this command:

          # Get a password hash
podman run -ti --rm quay.io/coreos/mkpasswd --method=yescrypt

          Then host the butane file in a temporary local webserver:

          # Convert Butane file to Ignition file
podman run -i --rm quay.io/coreos/butane:release --pretty --strict < ucore-autorebase.butane > ignition.ign

# Serve the Igition file using a temp webserver
podman run -p 5080:80 -v "$PWD":/var/www/html php:7.2-apache

          During UCore setup, type in the address of the hosted file, e.g. http://your_ip_addr:5080/ignition.ign

          That’s it - UCore configures everything else during setup.___