Comment on Sanity check: am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and do/learn from scratch?
agile_squirrel@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I had a similar journey and recommend it. I started with Open Media Vault with docker containers configured via a GUI, then to Debian + docker compose, then to Debian deployed with Ansible + docker compose, and now I’m with NixOS + podman compose. The first jump to Debian was the most intimidating for me learning CLI commands for the first time and not having defaults chosen for me, but it was liberating to finally learn the actual tools and not just learn a GUI abstraction for tools.
whysofurious@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I feel it, I am in the process now of transporting everything and I couldn’t agree more. I have a semi-idea of trying nixOS sometime, and I only recently learned about podman existence, is it that different to docker? I read it’s not a 100% replacement, but I guess it depends on the use-cases.
agile_squirrel@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I view podman as a mostly drop in replacement for docker but it doesn’t have a daemon (for better and worse). I wouldn’t recommend using podman for you right now. I’d strongly recommend docker-compose (not docker run).
whysofurious@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Thanks for the composerize link, it’s super useful indeed!
Yeah I took a quick look at podman and nope for now 😂 docker compose it is and it’s working wonderfully :)