The Lounge Podman

This role uses podman and systemd to run The Lounge, a popular IRC client web app, as a rootless container.

You can separately deploy a reverse proxy to expose The Lounge as an external service. This role only makes it available on localhost. See https://github.com/mhrivnak/ansible-thelounge_nginx as an option.

Add Users

Login to the host system and run the following command, which will exec into the running container to add the user.

sudo -u thelounge -- bash -c 'cd && podman exec -it --user node systemd-thelounge thelounge add alice'

Requirements

• developed on CentOS Stream 9

Role Variables

thelounge_port: the port on the host system's localhost interface to listen on

Dependencies

see requirements.yml for ansible requirements

Example Playbook

The following playbook will deploy The Lounge:

• as a rootless container using podman
• with nginx as a reverse proxy
• with a TLS certificate from letsencrypt

- hosts: irc_client_host
  become: true

  roles:
    - mhrivnak.nginx
    - mhrivnak.thelounge_podman
    - geerlingguy.certbot
    - mhrivnak.thelounge_nginx

  vars:
    certbot_admin_email: [email protected]
    certbot_create_if_missing: true
    certbot_certs:
      - domains:
          - irc.example.com
    thelounge_fqdn: irc.example.com
    thelounge_port: 9000

License

GPLv3