In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Croodle on the latest version of Fedora CoreOS, which is an open-source operating system designed for containerized workloads.
Croodle is a web application that allows us to create simple polls and surveys without compromising our privacy. It is an open-source alternative to Doodle, a popular online scheduling tool.
This tutorial assumes that you have some experience with Linux command-line interface (CLI) and containerization technologies such as Docker and Podman.
Let's get started!
Podman is a daemonless container engine that allows us to run, build, and manage containers without requiring root privileges. We will use Podman to run Croodle in a container.
To install Podman on Fedora CoreOS, run the following command:
sudo rpm-ostree install podman
Clone the Croodle repository from Github to your local machine:
git clone https://github.com/jelhan/croodle.git
This will create a directory called croodle with the source code of the project.
Change your directory to the croodle directory and run the following command:
podman build -t croodle-img .
This command will build a Docker-compatible image of Croodle and tag it as croodle-img. The . at the end of the command specifies that the build context is the current directory.
Now that we have built the Croodle image, we can run the container with the following command:
podman run -d --name croodle -p 8080:8080 croodle-img
This command will start a detached (-d) container named croodle, map the container's port 8080 to the host's port 8080 (-p 8080:8080), and use the Croodle image we just built (croodle-img).
With the container running, we can now access the Croodle web interface by opening a web browser and navigating to:
http://localhost:8080/
You should see the Croodle web interface in your browser! You can create a poll, survey, or share an existing one with others.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Croodle on the latest version of Fedora CoreOS by building a Docker-compatible image with Podman and running a container based on that image.
Croodle is an open-source alternative to Doodle, a popular online scheduling tool, that respects our privacy. We can use Croodle to create polls and surveys without requiring our personal data or using third-party cookies.
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