Hi! Question in the title.

I get that its super easy to setup. But its really worthwhile to have something that:

  • runs everything as root (not many well built images with proper useranagement it seems)
  • you cannot really know which stuff is in the images: you must trust who built it
  • lots of mess in the system (mounts, fake networks, rules…)

I always host on bare metal when I can, but sometimes (immich, I look at you!) Seems almost impossible.

I get docker in a work environment, but on self hosted? Is it really worth while? I would like to hear your opinions fellow hosters.

  • @beta_tester
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    14 months ago

    Unfortunately I do not have a source but to me it was like podman would replace docker as the container technology since red hat focuses on podman and not docker anymore and kubernetes doesn’t support docker anymore. Transitioning obviously takes ages because of companies being very slow.

    • @N0x0n
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      14 months ago

      I hope you’re wrong… With RH’s recent choices in regard of FOSS… I really hope podman won’t replace docker. Specially in the self-hosted/FOSS community !

      • @beta_tester
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        14 months ago

        What’s wrong with podman?

        It’s still many many years away. Just think about there being still fortran or assembly code

        • @N0x0n
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          14 months ago

          Probably nothing, I have never tried it… but docker compose feels so comfortable right now and relearn everything… uuhhg !

          • @beta_tester
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            14 months ago

            I had to add :Z to the paths in the docker compose files for selinux.