Comment on Selfhosted photo manager kind of like Jellyfin

MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Bookmeat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Containers are really only useful for scaling. I suppose there’s some benefit to isolation, but it’s not really that much better than just using correct permissions with SElinux.

  OP is kinda right. Containers get overused unnecessarily.

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  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re also useful because they’re easy to deploy, portable, and isolate things breaking from affecting the host or other containers.

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  • SDK@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The confidence with which you make this factually incorrect statement is mind bending.

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    • Bookmeat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure, let’s add another layer of complexity for the user to set up their network, storage, and other external resources and call it easier and simpler.

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      • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What are you talking about… Containers make it way easier to setup and operate services, especially multicomponent services like Immich. I just tried Immich and it took me several minutes to get it running. If I wanted to give it permanent storage, I’d have to spend several more to make a directory then add a line in a file and restart it.

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      • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Because it’s easier to tell someone “use this docker image” than it is to tell them “go through all of these thousands of steps to get this service working”.

        The main reason I use containers for my personal things is easy to setup and to migrate, those are huge points, and the added complexity is not that much, in fact I would argue it’s less complicated to figure out why a docker image is not running than figure out why a service stopped responding.

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      • summerof69@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sure, let’s add another layer of complexity for the user to set up their network, storage, and other external resources

        That’s why you don’t use containers?

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  • uzay@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Containers are useful for a lot more things than scaling. E.g. portability, ease of setup, dependency separation.

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  • matcha_addict@lemy.lol ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Containers have numerous other benefits. Checkout this blog post, it goes into some of them:

    cosmicbyt.es/…/demistifying-containers-part-1/

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    • Bookmeat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks, this is a nice resource.

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  • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you’re talking about k8s or similar, the initial time investment is heavy. After that though, it’s not very hard to get containers running with HA, better network segmentation and compatibility across run times. Containers are a lot more portable too, and allow granular levels of isolation and security.

    Also, I personally think SELinux is somewhat hard to do well.

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• slacktoid@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No. We exist.

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