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# Podman Quadlet Example
This example demonstrates how to deploy multiple autoscaling minecraft servers behind mc-router with [podman quadlets](https://docs.podman.io/en/stable/markdown/podman-systemd.unit.5.html).
The commands listed below assume rootless podman but can easily be modified for rootful.
## mc-router.host label
In `mc@.container`, replace `example.com` with your domain.
## Server instance configuration
Each server instance requries an environment file with a matching name in the mc folder; e.g. instance `example` uses `mc/example.env`.[^1]
## Container auto-removal fix
Once the quadlets files are installed and daemon-reloaded, the generated service file needs to be edited due to generated quadlets always adding `--rm`.[^2]
To fix this, run `systemctl --user edit mc@.service` and replace the `ExecStart` entry with a copy that substitues `--restart=unless-stopped` where `--rm` is.
The drop-in should look something like this:
```ini
[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman run --name %p-%i --replace --restart=unless-stopped ...
```
## Start containers/services
```sh
systemctl --user enable --now podman.socket
systemctl --user start mc@example.service mc-router.service
# instances are enabled by symlinking from the template
ln -s ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/containers/systemd/mc@.service ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/containers/systemd/mc@example.service
```
## Rootless notes
If running rootless, be sure to enable lingering with `sudo loginctl enable-linger $USER`.
Also note that source IPs are currently lost due to how rootless podman handles custom networks.
This should be fixed in a future podman release.[^3]
[^1]: The base config is a [template file](https://docs.podman.io/en/stable/markdown/podman-systemd.unit.5.html#template-files) with instance names after the @ sign .
[^2]: <https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/discussions/28837>
[^3]: <https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/pull/28478>