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My thoughts on docker (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello! 😀
I want to share my thoughts on docker and maybe discuss about it!
Since some months I started my homelab and as any good "homelabing guy" I absolutely loved using docker. Simple to deploy and everything. Sadly these days my mind is changing... I recently switch to lxc containers to make easier backup and the xperience is pretty great, the only downside is that not every software is available natively outside of docker 🙃
But I switch to have more control too as docker can be difficult to set up some stuff that the devs don't really planned to.
So here's my thoughts and slowly I'm going to leave docker for more old-school way of hosting services. Don't get me wrong docker is awesome in some use cases, the main are that is really portable and simple to deploy no hundreds dependencies, etc. And by this I think I really found how docker could be useful, not for every single homelabing setup, and it's not my case.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I let you talk about it in the comments, thx.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Docker compose plus using external volume mounts or using the docker volume + tar backup method is superior

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can be but I'm not enough free, and this way I run lxc containers directly onto proxmox

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You’re basically adding a ton of overhead to your services for no reason though

Realistically you should be doing docker inside LXC for a best of both worlds approach

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I accept the way of doing, docker or lxc but docker in a lxc is not suitable for me, I already tried it and I've got terrible performance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I used docker for my homeserver for several years, but managing everything with a single docker compose file that I edit over SSH became too tiring, so I moved to kubernetes using k3s. Painless setup, and far easier to control and monitor remotely. The learning curve is there, but I already use kubernetes at work. It's way easier to setup routing and storage with k3s than juggling volumes was with docker, for starters.

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