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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by GordonS on Saturday July 11, 2020 @01:59PM (#23804175)
I agree about the daemon. Podman is a daemonless alternative, though I've never used it myself.

Strongly disagree about Docker Compose though - I actually really like the ability to compose a stack of different containers together with some simple yaml.

Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by etaioinshrdlu on Saturday July 11, 2020 @02:22PM (#23804380)
You'd still be able to compose a bunch of containers together, but it would result in a new, single container due to nesting.

It could even be compatible with docker-compose and it's yaml.

Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by mceachen on Saturday July 11, 2020 @03:03PM (#23804792)
I enjoyed docker compose as well (enough to use it for PhotoStructure), but was bit by breaking changes even when I had specified a version in my docker-compose.yml.

It meant that a bunch of my beta users suddenly had broken PhotoStructure configurations because their docker-compose implementation had received a minor update. Why require a version to your configuration file and not increment it on breaking changes?

I ended up tearing out the script that helped people create their own docker-compose.yml file, and replaced the installation instructions with an annotated call to `docker run`.

And don't get me started on how janky it is to update existing containers to new images without docker-compose: there seems to only be one third-party tool to assist with this automatically (lighthouse), but is essentially abandoned. I'd love to be wrong about this, please point me to other solutions if they exist!

Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by BrandoElFollito on Saturday July 11, 2020 @05:29PM (#23806199)
I use watchtower with docker compose and the update is seamless.
Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by fsociety on Saturday July 11, 2020 @02:25PM (#23804411)
Haven’t used Podman in production but at home it’s a huge improvement over Docker and enjoyable to use