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• Bookmeat@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Agreed, sure scaling is one factor, but I don’t think this person has ever really dived into why containers are slick. Why you aren’t tracking down what dependency hell caused your app to crash. Conflicting cuda versions. Two apps using the same port. Trying to decipher a language you’ve never used before

      Whenever I hear “containers don’t make sense” I read it as “I don’t understand containers”. There are some real flaws to them, but no self respecting ops engineer would ever say “containers have no value beyond scaling”

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    • Atemu@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is a false dichotomy. Just because containers make it easy to ship software, doesn’t mean other means can’t be equally easy.

      NixOS achieves a greater ease of deployment than docker-compose and the like without any containers involved for instance.

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      • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        NixOS packages only work with NixOS system. They’re harder to setup than just copying a docker-compose file over and they do use container technology. If the idea is to remove complexity from the setup, NixOS goes in the opposite direction.

        Also without containers you don’t solve the biggest problems such as incompatible database versions between multiple services.

        I stand by what I said, I can give a 2 step tutorial on setting up any docker system (copy this compose file, run up on it), anything simpler than that wouldn’t be as robust in terms of configurations.

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  • summerof69@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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