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Any special setup amongst your network takes excess work to maintain. In the case of Pihole, I gave up on maintaining it because I was running it on a Raspberry

Any special setup amongst your network takes excess work to maintain. In the case of Pihole, I gave up on maintaining it because I was running it on a Raspberry Pi, and found that it was annoyingly hard to keep a Pi running stable for a long period of time. Had I a convenient way to set it up in a Docker container, it would've been better. Of course, since I don't run anything in Docker at home, that would also constitute a special setup I have to maintain.

charwalker 4y ago
Yeah, docker simplifies deployment and maintenance/rebuild time. I've stuck to fairly clean/default setups on any computer I use to keep rebuild time down or at least try to use the built in/simple tools of whatever OS I'm using and Docker is the perfect version of that for small services. I say all this of course while running pihole on a pi4 that also serves DHCP so I don't have to mess with it much... I used to run pihole on various Linux distros I was testing for home server stuff. It used to be that some distros needed a few packages added to support pihole properly but nowadays the app itself is more streamlined and/or most common distros include the minimum components. I think pihole did focus on streamlining to enable easier docker support which is where I should be putting my install whenever I get back to messing with the homelab. I've been working in windows systems for work so everything is currently Win Server based which plex doesn't seem happy with but is easier than running the whole thing as VMs on my older hardware.
- ocdtrekkie 4y ago
  Yeah, I'm more comfortable in the Windows space personally. My Sandstorm server is Linux but I don't really want to try running something else side by side with it. It looks like a Linux container on a Windows Server is technically possible, but it looks nontrivial enough that I am not sure I want to do it on my domain controller. :D

charwalker 4y ago

Yeah, docker simplifies deployment and maintenance/rebuild time. I've stuck to fairly clean/default setups on any computer I use to keep rebuild time down or at least try to use the built in/simple tools of whatever OS I'm using and Docker is the perfect version of that for small services. I say all this of course while running pihole on a pi4 that also serves DHCP so I don't have to mess with it much... I used to run pihole on various Linux distros I was testing for home server stuff. It used to be that some distros needed a few packages added to support pihole properly but nowadays the app itself is more streamlined and/or most common distros include the minimum components. I think pihole did focus on streamlining to enable easier docker support which is where I should be putting my install whenever I get back to messing with the homelab. I've been working in windows systems for work so everything is currently Win Server based which plex doesn't seem happy with but is easier than running the whole thing as VMs on my older hardware.

ocdtrekkie 4y ago
Yeah, I'm more comfortable in the Windows space personally. My Sandstorm server is Linux but I don't really want to try running something else side by side with it. It looks like a Linux container on a Windows Server is technically possible, but it looks nontrivial enough that I am not sure I want to do it on my domain controller. :D