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My thoughts on docker (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I hate how docker made it so that a lot of projects only have docker as the official way to install the software.

Just so we are clear on this. This is not dockers fault. The projects chose Docker as a distribution method, most likely because it's as widespread and known as it is. It's simply just to reach more users without spreading too thin.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

You are right and I should have been more precise.

I understand why docker was created and became popular because it abstracts a lot of the setup and make deployment a lot easier.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, but it is hard to separate that, and it's easy to get a bit resentful particularly when a projects quality declines in large part because they got lazy by duct taping in container registries instead of more carefully managing their project.