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Should I move to Docker? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 years ago by GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm a retired Unix admin. It was my job from the early '90s until the mid '10s. I've kept somewhat current ever since by running various machines at home. So far I've managed to avoid using Docker at home even though I have a decent understanding of how it works - I stopped being a sysadmin in the mid '10s, I still worked for a technology company and did plenty of "interesting" reading and training.

It seems that more and more stuff that I want to run at home is being delivered as Docker-first and I have to really go out of my way to find a non-Docker install.

I'm thinking it's no longer a fad and I should invest some time getting comfortable with it?

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[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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DNS Domain Name Service/System
Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP Internet Protocol
LXC Linux Containers
NAS Network-Attached Storage
PIA Private Internet Access brand of VPN
Plex Brand of media server package
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
VPN Virtual Private Network
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
k8s Kubernetes container management package
nginx Popular HTTP server

15 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.

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[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Dear God yes. It makes life a lot easier. It's very easy to use and understand.

I have a feeling that once you've used it you'll be kicking yourself for not doing so sooner.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I am a network engineer and I am learning it. I see it in the next step from the bare metal -> virtualisation evolution

[-] akash_rawal@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

As someone who is operating kubernetes for 2 years in my home server, using containers is much more maintainable compared to installing everything directly on the server.

I tried using docker-compose first to manage my services. It works well for 2-3 services, but as the number of services grew they started to interfere with each other, at that point I switched to kubernetes.

[-] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Wow - I thought docker was overkill for a home server and you've gone kubernetes! I guess if you use it for work and that's what you're comfortable with?

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[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

It's basically a vm without the drawbacks of a vm, why would you not? It's hecking awesome

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