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Stop putting off your homelab projects—they’re easier then you think
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"Than," but good on ya, Patrick.
Not everything needs to be a container, I've got separate machines doing separate things, sometimes going native is easier to maintain...
I would even be so bold to claim that it is possible to run multiple services on a single computer without containers. My 10 year old PC with 15W CPU doesn’t break a sweat running *-arr stack, home automation, media center etc. I can install packages, compile apps and make systemd services out of them and I can’t see a reason to introduce unnecessary complexity into this.
The only services I have native are pihole and Home Assistant. What are you running that is easier to maintain natively?
I've been putting off migrating a bunch of my docker run configs to compose. All of the services I've stood up for the least year and a half or so are using compose, but I still have most of mine using standard docker run (mostly because that was the default for Unraid when I built my server years ago). Maybe some day I'll have the time to just do it all at once.
If you feel more comfortable with docker run, you could give podman a try. The security and automation benefits outweigh the differences, IMO.
Oh definitely, I use pods with quadlets for prod clients. Unraid just doesn't support them natively (nor is there a third party plugin that I'm aware of)
I needed to hear this. Thanks!
Right now I'm stuck trying to get the wireguard packages off Github for my openWRT router because it shipped with some funky snapshot OS version and I have no idea how to download a WG version from the Openwrt repo that goes specifically with the Snapshot. It's air gapped until I can get the VPN server working.
Maybe I can git clone the whole repo to my flash drive and use the package manager to install with a Sim link from /tmp to the drive.
Counterpoint, more containers / projects, more maintenance, likely more fragility. Sure, spin 'em up and play around, but if you don't use them, get them out of your stack.
I like to keep the configs around but not active. If I need them they're just a systemctl --user start away (podman quadlets).
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