Incessant tinkerer since the 70’s. Staunch privacy advocate. SelfHoster. Musician of mediocre talent. https://soundcloud.com/hood-poet-608190196

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  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldDocker is hard work
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    7 hours ago

    I run about 70 containers. I really don’t find it that difficult. I do run a Watchtower fork, but I run it with --run-once --cleanup. I do that once a month after I feel confident that everyone else has done all the beta testing on the new updates for me. So hats off to all you guys who just yolo your updates. You are an invaluable resource to the selfhosting community. Thank you.

    As far as Linux updates, I’m running Ubuntu Jammy so those updates don’t usually introduce breaking changes and I complete them as they become available. I use Portainer, but I am unaware of any auto—update features for Docker containers. You can feed it a new yaml and it will replace or recreate the container based on that yaml, but it doesn’t do it automatically. Portainer is just a handy way to consolidate all your container administration in one place in lieu of using the terminal.

    There are other options to updating your containers like WUD, or similar. They will alert you that there is an update, but you have to manually initiate the update. Anecdotally, I’ve only encountered one breaking change and that was when Portainer updated, but was incompatible at the time with the current version of Docker, or something like that. Memory is foggy this morning. It took about an hour to find a fix, and implement it, so it wasn’t an excruciating change up.





  • Welcome to the club. Enjoy the journey. Learn and explore.

    Honestly, unless you are just hardcore with a lot of disposable income, or you do remote administration for a company from home, a rack full of enterprise equipment is a bit of overkill. Not throwing shade at all, and I drool on them too when I see selfhosters with them. Thing is, modern, consumer grade equipment with some minor modifications like a dual nic, larger HDD/SSD, etc will get you very far down the road. Now days, it doesn’t take a lot to get a lot out of your equipment.

    my manga doesn’t really play well with Calibre-Web

    Yeah I had that problem with all my tentacle porn. /s


  • Dude! Welcome to the club. That’s an awesome set up. For the total price, you’ve done very well.

    a total of 1,25TB storage.

    Wow! That will hold a lot of Linux ISO’s

    in order to not have to work with the terminal at all times, I installed Casa OS

    Pretty solid platform. Admittedly, I am a sucker for a good UI, but don’t neglect learning the terminal tho. One thing that helps me is documentation. I document everything I am doing at the time. All the terminal commands, etc. That way, I can always go back to any point of administration, especially when the wheels fall off. There are so many commands and multiple commands to do the same. I’ve had a computer in front of me since the mid 70s and I still feel like a noob when it comes to my terminal game. Documentation helps me out a lot.











  • His name is Lindsey Graham and all you have to do is look up his name and ‘racist’. It’s not your fault. As you said, you didn’t know who he is. No harm, no foul. I’ll put up with a lot of bullshit from a lot of people, but I just have no tolerance for racists. Stupidest thing I’ve ever heard from people who didn’t choose their skin color either. Former president LBJ, who had his own issues with racism, said something that will stand the test of time:

    “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”