Hello! 😀
I want to share my thoughts on docker and maybe discuss about it!
Since some months I started my homelab and as any good “homelabing guy” I absolutely loved using docker. Simple to deploy and everything. Sadly these days my mind is changing… I recently switch to lxc containers to make easier backup and the xperience is pretty great, the only downside is that not every software is available natively outside of docker 🙃
But I switch to have more control too as docker can be difficult to set up some stuff that the devs don’t really planned to.
So here’s my thoughts and slowly I’m going to leave docker for more old-school way of hosting services. Don’t get me wrong docker is awesome in some use cases, the main are that is really portable and simple to deploy no hundreds dependencies, etc. And by this I think I really found how docker could be useful, not for every single homelabing setup, and it’s not my case.

Maybe I’m doing something wrong but I let you talk about it in the comments, thx.

  • huskypenguin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I use the *arr suite, a project zomboid server, a foundry vtt server, invoice ninja, immich, next cloud, qbittorrent, and caddy.

    I pretty much only use prebuilt images, I run them like appliances. Anything custom I’d run in a vm with snapshots as my docker skills do not run that deep.

    • foremanguy@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      10 days ago

      This why I don’t get anything from using docker I want to tweak my configuration and docker is adding an extra level of complexity

      • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
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        8 days ago

        Tweak for what? Compile with the right build flags been there done that not worth the time.

        • foremanguy@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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          6 days ago

          If I want really to dive in the config files and how this thing works, no normal install I can really easily, on docker it’s something else