···11+---
22+author: Jack Platten
33+createdAt: 2025-11-24T06:18:20.000Z
44+modifiedAt: null
55+title: Self hosting your PDS with Podman
66+featured: true
77+draft: false
88+tags:
99+ - atproto
1010+ - server
1111+description: A writeup of gotchas and other fun stuff along the way of deploying a PDS
1212+atUri: 'at://did:plc:cwdkf4xxjpznceembuuspt3d/site.standard.document/3mdrs3mtops2m'
1313+---
1414+1515+Bluesky is great (as evidenced by my multiple posts on it), but I wanted to own
1616+my data more than it living on the Bluesky servers. Now I could have just used
1717+the standard deployment as shown [in the PDS repo](https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds),
1818+but I wanted to do something a little more fitting my deployment practices.