Comment on My Overconfidence Killed Me and My Immich Installation
zarenki@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Something I’ve noticed that is somewhat related but tangential to your problem: The result I’ve always gotten from using compose files is that container names and volume names get assigned names that contain a shared prefix by default. I don’t use docker and instead prefer podman but I would expect both to behave the same on this front. For example, when I have a file at nextcloud/compose.yml
that looks like this:
volumes: nextcloud: db: services: db: image: docker.io/mariadb:10.6 ... app: image: docker.io/nextcloud ...
I end up with volumes named nextcloud_nextcloud
and nextcloud_db
, with containers named nextcloud_db
and nextcloud_app
, as long as neither of those services overrides this behavior by specifying a container_name
. I believe this prefix probably comes from the file-level name:
if there is one and the parent directory’s name otherwise.
The reasons I adjust my own compose files to be different from the image maintainer’s recommendation include: to accommodate the differences between podman and docker, avoiding conflicts between the exported listen ports, any host filesystem paths I want to mount in the container, and my own preferences. The only conflict I’ve had with other containers there is the exported port. zigbee2mqtt, nextcloud, and freshrss all suggest using port 8080 so I had to change at least two of them in order to run all three.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 7 months ago
Early on in my Docker journey (I’m aware I sound like a total wanker with that, allow me this once 😂) I had to add a bunch of container names to keep things readable and have kept at it ever since.