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As a person who spent way too many hours self-hosting stuff as a (pre)teen and beyond, I have to say that Docker (or Podman, or anything equivalent) has been a
by outime 3y ago
As a person who spent way too many hours self-hosting stuff as a (pre)teen and beyond, I have to say that Docker (or Podman, or anything equivalent) has been a godsend. I know it's not popular for many here in HN for whatever reason but once you wrap your head around it, it doesn't make any sense to go back to non-containerized workloads - it's just so convenient and nice.
- DigitalHackOp 3y agoI don't understand the claim that containers aren't popular with the HN crowd. IMHO containers are the one tech that seems to be universally used among the HN crowd.
- josteink 3y agoI use containerisation for all my workloads. But I don’t use Docker. I prefer simpler/less abstract container technologies like systemd-nspawn or LXC. With those I always know what’s actually happening on my system. Docker is IMO too much black box and voodoo.
- joshspankit 3y agoThere are people in careers today who have no idea how much of a pain it was to self-host non-containerized applications. LAMP, MEAN, RoR, “bare” php scripts, binaries with super-specific requirements, running multiple apps on bare-metal… Truly trial by fire.
- XCSme 3y agoI use both Docker and non-containerized apps. In my opinion, setting up LAMP is easier than Docker. Setting up LAMP is just copy-pasting a few install commands: apt install apache2 php libapache2-mod-php mariadb-server php-mysql mysql_secure_installation ufw allow http ufw allow https ufw enable