How to Install Family Accounting Tool (FAC-TO) on Fedora CoreOS Latest

If you're looking for a simple tool to manage your family finances, the Family Accounting Tool (FAC-TO) is an excellent choice. FAC-TO is an open-source project hosted on GitHub, and it allows you to keep track of your expenses, incomes, and balances by creating accounts for each member of your family.

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to install FAC-TO on Fedora CoreOS Latest. Fedora CoreOS is a minimal operating system designed for containerized workloads. It comes with many useful tools and services pre-installed, including podman, a container engine that we'll use to deploy FAC-TO.

Prerequisites

Before you get started, there are a few things you'll need:

  • A computer running Fedora CoreOS Latest
  • A terminal or SSH client to connect to your server
  • A GitHub account to download the FAC-TO code

Step 1 - Install podman

The first thing you need to do is install podman. If you're using Fedora CoreOS Latest, podman should already be installed. To check, run the following command in your terminal:

podman version

If podman is not installed, you can install it using the following command:

sudo dnf install podman

Step 2 - Download FAC-TO from GitHub

Next, you need to download the FAC-TO code from GitHub. To do this, you'll need to clone the Git repository. First, create a directory where you want to store the code:

mkdir ~/facto

Then, navigate to that directory and clone the repository:

cd ~/facto
git clone https://github.com/nymanjens/facto.git .

Step 3 - Deploy FAC-TO using podman

Now that you have the code, it's time to deploy FAC-TO using podman. First, build the container image by running the following command:

podman build -t facto .

This will create a container image based on the Dockerfile in the FAC-TO repository.

Next, create a podman pod and add a container to it:

podman pod create --name facto-pod
podman run -dt --name facto-container --pod facto-pod -p 8000:8000 factodocker_facto

This will create a new pod, "facto-pod", and add a container, "facto-container", to it. The container will expose the FAC-TO web interface on port 8000.

Step 4 - Access FAC-TO in your browser

Finally, you can access the FAC-TO web interface in your browser. If you're running Fedora CoreOS locally, open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:8000. If you're running Fedora CoreOS remotely, replace "localhost" with the IP address or hostname of your server.

You should now see the FAC-TO login page. By default, there are two users created with the following usernames and passwords:

  • admin / password
  • user / password

You should change these passwords as soon as possible by going to the "Users" page in the FAC-TO interface.

That's it! You've successfully installed and deployed FAC-TO on Fedora CoreOS Latest using podman. You can now start using it to manage your family finances.