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Should I move to Docker? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm a retired Unix admin. It was my job from the early '90s until the mid '10s. I've kept somewhat current ever since by running various machines at home. So far I've managed to avoid using Docker at home even though I have a decent understanding of how it works - I stopped being a sysadmin in the mid '10s, I still worked for a technology company and did plenty of "interesting" reading and training.

It seems that more and more stuff that I want to run at home is being delivered as Docker-first and I have to really go out of my way to find a non-Docker install.

I'm thinking it's no longer a fad and I should invest some time getting comfortable with it?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Why would you try avoiding it if you understand how it works? It has so many upsides and so few downsides. About the only practical one is using more disk space. It was groundbreaking technology in 2013. Today it's an old and essential tool.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
Git	Popular version control system, primarily for code
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP	Internet Protocol
LXC	Linux Containers
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
PIA	Private Internet Access brand of VPN
Plex	Brand of media server package
RAID	Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SSD	Solid State Drive mass storage
SSH	Secure Shell for remote terminal access
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
VPN	Virtual Private Network
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
k8s	Kubernetes container management package
nginx	Popular HTTP server

15 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (9 children)

As someone who is operating kubernetes for 2 years in my home server, using containers is much more maintainable compared to installing everything directly on the server.

I tried using docker-compose first to manage my services. It works well for 2-3 services, but as the number of services grew they started to interfere with each other, at that point I switched to kubernetes.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I'm thinking about moving to Korea. Not forever but for a year or two. Learn the language, get to know the culture, disconnect for a bit and come back to EU. How's the IT job market there? Is it doable?

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