How to Install Croodle on Fedora CoreOS Latest

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!

Step 1: Install Podman

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

Step 2: Clone Croodle Repository

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.

Step 3: Build Croodle Image with Podman

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.

Step 4: Run Croodle Container with Podman

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).

Step 5: Access Croodle Web Interface

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.

Conclusion

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.