Quick Owncast setup with Podman.

start-owncast.sh

#!/bin/bash

set -e

DOMAIN=example.com
OWNCAST_VERSION=latest
CADDY_VERSION=latest

## Create Pod
podman pod create --replace --name owncast-pod \
        -p 80:80 \
        -p 443:443 \
        -p 1935:1935

echo "Start Owncast"
podman volume create owncast 2> /dev/null ||:
podman create --replace --pod owncast-pod \
       --volume owncast:/app/data:Z \
       --name owncast \
       docker.io/gabekangas/owncast:${OWNCAST_VERSION}

podman start owncast

echo "Start Caddy"
podman volume create caddy-data 2> /dev/null ||:
podman volume create caddy-config 2> /dev/null ||:
podman create --replace --pod owncast-pod \
       --name caddy \
       --volume caddy-data:/data:Z \
       --volume caddy-config:/config:Z \
       docker.io/library/caddy:${CADDY_VERSION} caddy reverse-proxy --from ${DOMAIN} --to localhost:8080

podman start caddy

Run this as root on Fedora 35 after installing podman (sudo dnf install podman) and change the DOMAIN var to the domain name you want to use.

If you run rootless Podman, you might get better network performance if you use socket activation.
(I haven't done any benchmarks, though)

Rootless Podman get native network performance for the traffic that is sent over a socket activation socket:
https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorials/socket_activation.md#native-network-performance-over-the-socket-activated-socket

I created a PR for adding socket activation support to owncast
owncast/owncast#1751

and also a feature request with rationale arguments
owncast/owncast#1750