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Still crutching on containers?
Always and forever!
Containers are better than any other option, so of course they're being used! I'm gunna use containers even harder!
What would you prefer and why? Bare metal?
Gotta chime in with a +1 for bare metal too...
Ideally yea. Rpm package with various architectures. 90% of other software is able to do it. I only use docker for immich and this would remove a dependency for me.
Why though? When you run multiple services on your machine, conflicts between these can cause headaches. Updating them is also often not trivial on bare metal. Let alone migrating to a newly set up machine (I suppose you could automate that with something like ansible)
I run jellyfin, plex, mattermost, peertube, minecraft, all under one host. Never had anything conflict and just upgrade the rpms. Some of them use the same postgres database. Thats how I prefer to do things. I will use docker if absolutely forced, I know how, understand its easier to deploy etc. but I would rather it be the choice of the user instead of the software. Or if not rpm let me get in the source and run it.
And that's totally okay.
Well...Docker is my only dependency.
How so?
Every way?
Well, apart from simplicity and security I suppose... and networking...
Oh, and storage...
But, before you think I'm arguing with you, I'm not... Containers have their place, VMs also, they are just for different uses.
In this case, I have a NAS, with Immich installed directly on it and I don't have to mess with any abstraction layers... and it all plays nice with the other applications.
Maybe yours is different... but mine is better on bare metal.
There's always one of these comments and it's always incredibly similar.