🔗 Production-grade container deployment with podman quadlets

Containers have become the de facto standard for application deployment, but the conversation often jumps straight to Kubernetes when discussing production workloads. While K8s excels at large-scale orchestration, many production services don’t require that level of complexity. For single-host or small-scale deployments, a well-architected Podman setup with systemd integration can provide robust, secure, and maintainable infrastructure.

This article demonstrates a production-grade container deployment using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Podman Quadlets, and Traefik as a reverse proxy. We’ll walk through deploying Forgejo (a self-hosted Git service) as a practical example, covering the technical implementation and the architectural decisions behind it.