Given that cron is not installed by default on a Fedora Silverblue host, it can either be added as a layered package or you can use systemd which is available by default.

Setting up a local dev environment with Traefik as the proxy has some benefits:

• highly configurable
• only need to expose required ports on the Traefik container
• simplifies configuring SSL certificates and redirects for each dev site.

Given the benefits, I found it worth while investing the time and effort in learning enough about Traefik to apply those benefits to new projects as it simplifies config for each new project.

Podman is installed out of the box on Fedora Silverblue. When I need to start new projects, podman coupled with ansible are the tools I use to configure them. Podman is a drop in replacement for Docker but I encountered a couple of issues. Read on to find out more.

Since I have been using Fedora Silverblue full time I have switched away from using Docker and docker-compose, for container orchestration, to creating ansible playbooks to provision local development containers.

I’ve been using linux as my OS of choice for many years now, for personal and work related usage and my current distro of choice is Fedora Silverblue. If you are wondering what the difference is compared to the regular Fedora workstation then read on.