Re:What are your most used self-hosted applications?
by ornornor on Thursday May 05, 2022 @01:13AM
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Not OP but I was running a number of services with docker.
This was a major pain. Docker is fine for local development, but unless you have a full time department dedicated to babysit it, it’s not scalable for self hosting. Observing services becomes complicated and requires a whole tool chain, ditto keeping on top of new versions, etc.
What I did instead is install proxmox on my server, and run the former server (that was running all the docker stuff) as a virtual machine within proxmox.
I was then able to gradually move everything away from docker and into VMs or LXC containers (which are basically lightweight VMs, but you can use all existing tooling and treat it like a VM). I’m using ansible roles and playbooks, I can ssh into the containers, and unattended upgrades for updating, and tarsnap or borg for backups.
It’s much saner this way ad I don’t end up running versions that are several years old because of the complexity/inertia of docker.
This was a major pain. Docker is fine for local development, but unless you have a full time department dedicated to babysit it, it’s not scalable for self hosting. Observing services becomes complicated and requires a whole tool chain, ditto keeping on top of new versions, etc.
What I did instead is install proxmox on my server, and run the former server (that was running all the docker stuff) as a virtual machine within proxmox.
I was then able to gradually move everything away from docker and into VMs or LXC containers (which are basically lightweight VMs, but you can use all existing tooling and treat it like a VM). I’m using ansible roles and playbooks, I can ssh into the containers, and unattended upgrades for updating, and tarsnap or borg for backups.
It’s much saner this way ad I don’t end up running versions that are several years old because of the complexity/inertia of docker.