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  • I don’t have anything handy, but I see your point, and I’d shame lazy devs for not properly packaging things maybe 😂

    You mentioned you use Proxmox, which is already an abstraction on bare-metal, so that’s about as easy as easy an interface as I can imagine for a hosted machine without using something like Docker Desktop and using it to manage a machine remotely (not a good idea).

    As a develop, I guess I was slightly confused on some suggestions on ways to use things being posted in this sub, but some of the responses I guess clarify that. There isn’t enough simplicity in explaining the “what” of containers, so people just use them the simplest way they understand, which also happens to be the “wrong way”. It’s kind of hard to grasp that when you live with these things 24/7 for years. Kind of a similar deal with networking solutions like Tailscale where I see people installing it everywhere and not understanding why that’s a bad idea 😂

    So save you a lot of learning, I’ll just not go down a rabbit hole if you just want something to work well. Ping back here if you get into a spot of trouble, and I’ll definitely hop in to give a more detailed explanation on a workflow that is more effective than what it seems most people in here are using.

    In fact, I may have just been inspired to do a write up on it.



  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldDocker in LXC vs VM
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    This thread has raised so many questions I’d like answered:

    1. Why are people backing up containers?
    2. Why are people running docker-in-docker?
    3. I saw someone mention snapshotting containers…what’s the purpose of this?
    4. Why are people backing up docker installs?

    Seriously thought I was going crazy reading some of these, and now I’m convinced the majority of people posting suggestions in here do not understand how to use containers at all.

    Flat file configs, volumes, layers, versioning…it’s like people don’t know what these are are how to use them, and that is incredibly disconcerting.


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    Run Docker at the host level. Every level down from there is not only a knock to performance across the spectrum, it just makes a mess of networking. Anyone in here saying “it’s easy to backup in a VM” has completely missed the point of containers, and apparently does not understand how to work with them.

    You shouldn’t ever need to backup containers, and if you’re expecting data loss if one goes away, yerdewinitwrawng.