Docker's been great for hobbyist stuff for me. But I don't really use anything fancy on it, just map some folders for storage I want to survive rebuilds[1] and

Docker's been great for hobbyist stuff for me. But I don't really use anything fancy on it, just map some folders for storage I want to survive rebuilds[1] and forward necessary ports to the host machine's interfaces. I don't rely on swarm or any of that. I mostly use it to avoid having to worry about distro-specific crap, since I no longer care to (re-)learn any of that. I don't even use docker-compose since almost none of my personal services depend on one another, just simple shell scripts that all look pretty similar. [1] In some ways this is easier than running traditional daemons, as storage locations for dockerized services tend to be well-documented, prominently, all in one place, and don't change from, say, one package manager to another. You can very easily get all your dockerized services storing their important stuff under one isolated tree, and back up the whole thing. That plus your run scripts are all you need to restore, no matter which host platform you use. [EDIT] in fact, getting Samba set up for my super simple and surely common use case of "I want these folders shared read-only for everyone, and these others writable for this one user" was much easier with Docker than it's been since back when I used Gentoo. The fancier distros all seem to make it a big pain in the ass to do anything other than sharing user directories through the GUI, and change Samba configs between seemingly every major release, and they're always a mess. With the Dockerized version it was one short and sweet arcane magical line per directory I wanted to share, so no clearer, but very short and worked on the first try.