Comment on Self hosting is hard. How do you overcome?
Lem453@lemmy.ca 6 months agoYes, you should use something that makes sense to you but ignoring docker is likely going to cause more aggravation than not in the long term.
Comment on Self hosting is hard. How do you overcome?
Lem453@lemmy.ca 6 months agoYes, you should use something that makes sense to you but ignoring docker is likely going to cause more aggravation than not in the long term.
tuhriel@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Yep, I went in this direction…until I gave in during a bare metal install of something…
Docker is not hassle free but usually most setup guides for apps are much much easier with docker
barsquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Docker/Podman or any containerized solution is basically the easiest way to get really nice maintenance properties like: updating one app won’t break others, won’t take down the whole system, can be moved from machine to machine.
Containers are a learning curve but I think very worth it for home setups. Compared to something like Kubernetes which I would say is less worth it unless you already know or want to learn Kubernetes.
kieron115@startrek.website 6 months ago
I would like to add try running Portainer (a graphical management interface for Docker). Breaking out the various options into a GUI helped me learn the ins and outs of Docker better, plus if you end up expanding to multiple docker hosts you can manage them all from one console.
Lem453@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Not to mention the advantage of infrastructure as code. All my docker configs are just a dozen or so text files (compose). I can recreate my server apps from a bare VM in just a few minutes then copy the data over to restore a backup, revert to a previous version or migrate to another server. Massive advantages compared to bare metal.