Comment on Interoperability between self-hosted services

• irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  … well that’s the part I’m challenging. I was thinking like this but I’m wondering if that could be improved.

  Do you have a specific use case for two containers that you want to talk to each other? There are some Docker containers that will cozy up, but as you point out, there are some that don’t. Maybe it would be worth the time to consult with the dev teams of said containers, and see if they have any suggestions or ways to go about it. It would seem to me that would be your best point to deviate from. Couldn’t hurt. I would create a defined road map of what you are trying to accomplish before hand, and run it by the dev teams. Just give them a little time to respond. They are real people with real lives too.

  As I’m thinking about it, I wonder if your solution might be automation? Something like n8n might allow cross container exchanges. Of course, those data points have to be present for you to tap them tho.

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  • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do you have a specific use case for two containers that you want to talk to each other?

    Sure, for example once a Jitsi Meet meeting ends (more than 1 person in a room in, everybody gone), save the chat log to CopyParty e.g. WebDAV push to /meetingname_date.txt would be enough to be useful. It’s something we tend to do manually on a regular basis.

    road map of what you are trying to accomplish before hand, and run it by the dev teams.

    Yes no rush and I can code so I would be able to test before suggesting anything.

    As I’m thinking about it, I wonder if your solution might be automation?

    I don’t touch AI but I do think conventions, e.g. not “just” an API but SWAGGER, specific filesystem on mountpoints, etc could facilitate this.

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    • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t touch AI

      Automation doesn’t always mean AI. The app I mentioned, n8n, has two versions: with and without. The plain n8n app is very capable of doing a ton of stuff.

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      • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The plain n8n app is very capable of doing a ton of stuff.

        Sorry if I’m a bit slow but what does it actually do? I skimmed through “automations” earlier this morning and I mostly found paid-for GenAI related stuff.

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