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Hi! Question in the title.

I get that its super easy to setup. But its really worthwhile to have something that:

  • runs everything as root (not many well built images with proper useranagement it seems)
  • you cannot really know which stuff is in the images: you must trust who built it
  • lots of mess in the system (mounts, fake networks, rules...)

I always host on bare metal when I can, but sometimes (immich, I look at you!) Seems almost impossible.

I get docker in a work environment, but on self hosted? Is it really worth while? I would like to hear your opinions fellow hosters.

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[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It cuts both ways. Less commercial interest means only hobby level development (which can be high quality, but is typically slow and unpolished for users).

So you can spend your energy on making up the gap between the ease of use of the commercially supported software and the pure volunteer projects or you can have free time for things you're more interested in and jump ship when they squeeze too hard for cash.

[–] azdle@news.idlestate.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Less commercial interest means only hobby level development

Podman is developed by RedHat: https://github.com/containers/podman/graphs/contributors

[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Podman supports Docker images and makes things easier for users in doing so.