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Re:Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your... by motorest on Sunday June 08, 2025 @03:58AM (#44215434)
> Tools like Ansible exist and can do everything you mention on the deploy side and more (...)

Your comment is technically correct, but factually wrong. What you are leaving out is the fact that, in order to do what Docker provides out of the box, you need to come up with a huge custom Ansible script to even implement the happy path.

So, is your goal to self host your own services, or to endlessly toy with the likes of Ansible?

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Re:Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your... by sgarland on Monday June 09, 2025 @08:31AM (#44223799)
Is your goal to run your own services, or to understand them? The two are not mutually exclusive, and one can certainly understand containers, but the general vibe from this thread seems to be “I like containers because I don’t have to understand the magic they’re doing.”
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Re:Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your... by eddythompson80 on Monday June 09, 2025 @02:05PM (#44227284)
funny because it seems to me that the general vibes are "I don't like containers because I can't learn something new"
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