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Next evolution, just a one line bash script.
Me: install it, doesn't work, read the docs, screw with all the missing things, doesn't work, read the forms, install something else I missed, doesn't work, find more forums, find the right answer, patch it up, get it working, figure out that the application is slow, missing critical features, and really just doesn't do what I needed to do.
Or it does work, and then I never actually end up using it again.
And then months later I'll have to do something similar and I've forgotten I even installed something that can do that, so I install another related thing.
really just doesn’t do what I needed to do.
This has been my experience, or sort of does what I want it to do, but I have to rethink what I need it to do instead of something really simple. Like a "new type of shared file system" that replaces NFS/Windows sharing. So instead of files in a standard file system one can manage with a file browser, it has "indexed" your files in such a way that the actual files are renamed into data chunks, and one "finds" files by their non-intuitive search engine that can't do even basic search engine tricks like "AND/OR" searches, wildcards, and the results are hit and miss. "But it's faster and more elegant!" So how do you restore from backup when the system fails? "When the system does whatnow?"
Yeah, no thanks. I can recover files from a file system much easier than some proprietary encoded bullshit fronted with a bad search engine over a proprietary and buggy index.
I asked the other week if anyone made a system that left files alone and just indexed them and gave you a place to store meta without moving them. Options do seem to exist, but they need LOTS of extra work
When the project installation steps start with a 'git clone'.
Nah, to much work, use curl to download a script and blindly run it...
I believe this to be true for nearly all products. It has to be super simple to test, because you need to assess if it fits your needs. The mental model for a priori assessment is not strong enough usually.
I'm the opposite because I've had nothing but bad luck with docker. I should really spend more time with it but ugh
It's definitely worth learning. I had the damnedest time with docker until I went to a meetup and had someone ELI5 to me. And it wasn't that I wasn't technical. I just couldn't wrap my head around so many layers of extraction.
The guy was very patient with me and helped me get started with docker compose and the rest is history.
Try running portainer. Gives you a nice management GUI. Docker didn’t unlock for me until I started using portainer.
I was the same with Kubernetes until I started using Lens to monitor the clusters.
What's wrong with it
It’s because I’ve seen What people can do with a simple docker container that I completely agree. It’s too nice to go back.
I'd agree more if most docker stuff didn't depend on running as root.
I think your looking for podman
yeha, but the big projects like linuxserver.io love creating docker images with root access, even if people have warned them it is an awful security practice. I rewrote all of their images in a personal repo, screw that. I won't run shit as root in my machine, even in containers.
Ah to be young and have that kind of energy... Enjoy it!
Im young and have neither of those tho :(
There's rootless docker, or podman, or numerous other container runtimes. The beauty in containers is separating concerns. How you choose to run it, root or rootless, is up to you in all but the nichest of scenarios.
I was blown away how a relatively unknown project like immich provides one Docker compose file to bring up a whole self-hosted ~~Google photos~~ photo management suite, complete with tagging, mapping, transcoding and semantic search. Local, offline semantic search.
This oh my God. Just the other day I tried to install a project off git, it had a nice little .bat file to install all the requirements except half if them just didn't exist or were so niche I couldn't find anything on them after searching. Would love more dockers please.
.bat?
*starts loading shotgun.
Surely you mean .sh, right?
Ah well, maybe he used to much aliases? starts sweating in penguin costume
Naw they only had windows projects. I run all my stuff through VMware. Gotta have windows for stupid easy anti-cheat. Trust me I only use it when I have to, please put the gun down mr railcar!
For me it's more like new interesting self hosted project and then find out it's only distributed as a docker container without any proper packaging. As someone who runs FreeBSD, this is a frustration I've run into with quite a number of projects.
Eh even as a Linux admin, I prefer hand installs I understand over mysterious docker black boxes that ship god knows what.
Sure, if I'm trialing something to see if it's worth my time, I'll spin up a container. But once it's time to actually deploy it, I do it by hand.
Does Qemu work for you?
Virtualization in general? Sure, I can. I've tried it a bit with bhyve. But it's definitely a lot heavier since I'm now running a full Linux os and dedicating resources to it to run docker just to run a python or node app.
Learning the project is in Go though is a sigh of relief. Professionally I've moved to Go (from Python) just because it's so damn easy to build and distribute.
I just wish there was better support for the other *nix's. While the language support them just fine, docker on the other hand strangles it. =(
As someone that uses FreeBSD as its main server, it's kinda the other way around haha
Yeah nah no thanks I'm not wasting my time with that
Yeah no thanks I actually enjoy customizing my installs and not relying on docker for config management which it really shouldn't be used for.
Only container I have that was well worth it is the OSX vm which makes it easy to swap versions and options without having to coax the crappy apple software.
Which I also only have because I thought it'd be funny to demo bluebubbles to my friends.
I was so surprised by how easy it was to install Yacy--I'd thought a self-hosted search engine would be tough, but I made a docker-compose file and pointed my reverse proxy to the server, works perfectly so far!
As a NixOS user, I pick whatever is supported well as a NixOS package.
Building a docker container isn't normally to hard. I usually will create a PR with a dockerfile and docker compose