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Written by machinin@lemmy.world on 2024-12-22 at 10:21

Docker on VM vs bare install on VM

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Written by Scott on 2024-12-22 at 10:30

Containers are just processes with flags. Those flags isolate the process’s filesystem, memory, etc.

The advantages of containers is that the software dependencies can be unique per container and not conflict with others. There are no significant disadvantages.

Without containers, if software A has the same dependency as software B but need different versions of that dependency, you’ll have issues.

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Written by machinin@lemmy.world on 2024-12-22 at 11:47

Thanks for this - the one advantage I’m noticing is that too update the services I’m running, I have to rebuild the container. I can’t really just update from the UI if an update is available. I can do it, it is just somewhat of a nuisance.

How often are there issues with dependencies? Is that a problem with a lot of software these days?

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Written by Passerby6497@lemmy.world on 2024-12-22 at 15:39

But rebuilding your container is pretty trivial from the command line all said and done. I have something like this alias’d in my .bashrc to smooth it along:

Docker compose pull; docker compose down; docker compose up -d

I regularly check on my systems and go through my docker dirs and run my alias to update everything fairly simply. Add in periodic schedule image cleanups and it has been humming along for a couple years for the most part (aside from one odd software issues and hardware failures).

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Written by machinin@lemmy.world on 2024-12-23 at 01:37

I know rebuilding containers is trivial, but updating a service in the UI is more trivial than that. I’m just trying to make my life as trivial as possible 😁. It seems like containers may be worth the little bit of extra effort.

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Toot

Written by Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works on 2024-12-23 at 03:37

I mean, for anything where you’re willing to trust the container provider not to push breaking changes, you can just run Watchtower and have it automatically update. That’s how most of my stuff runs.

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