I just start using my homelab to host some new good services, and I want to know what is the approach of a docker setup, what is the best distro for? How to deploy them correctly? Basically I’m a real noob in this subject. Thank you

  • @Dust0741English
    8•14 days ago

    Anything.

    Personally I use Debian. But Docker doesn’t care. I chose Debian because it is very stable and simple

    • funkajunkEnglish
      3•14 days ago

      Yep, Debian and then add Portainer - for me this is the easiest setup to manage.

        • funkajunkEnglish
          7•14 days ago

          I just said what works best for me. Use the command line and compose files if you want.

        • @ikiddEnglish
          2•13 days ago

          I can appreciate this. You might want to look at Lazydocker as a SSH TUI management tool.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•13 days ago

          I love the one click pull from git option. Don’t like the corporate direction they seem to be taking.

          I haven’t seen aby alternative docker GUI managers that have the git pull for the compose.

    • foremanguyOPEnglish
      1•14 days ago

      And what is the good way of deploying it? After pulling the image, how do we autostart it etc…

      • @[email protected]English
        5•14 days ago

        The Docker documentation is pretty terrible, but it’s a decent start. Start by looking at docker-compose.yml files for the services you want to run and the write-ups for those.

        Something nobody ever told me, that I had to figure out myself, is that docker-compose.yml files can be placed anywhere you want.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•14 days ago

        At its simplest:

        docker run -d --name servicename --restart unless-stopped container

        That’ll get you going. Youi’ll have containers running, they restart, etc. There are more sophisticated ways of doing things (create a systemd file that starts/stops the container, use kubernetes, etc.) but if you’re just starting this will likely work fine.

        • foremanguyOPEnglish
          1•14 days ago

          Are they starting automatically at boot?

          EDIT : how do you run a container with a simple name instead of using his id?

          • @[email protected]English
            2•14 days ago

            Yes - they’ll start automatically. There are other options for “restart” that define the behavior.

            You can give whatever you like to “servicename” and use that rather than the ID.

            For example:

            docker run -d --name mysite --restart unless-stopped nginx

docker stop mysite

docker start mysite
      • @ItwasthegoatEnglish
        1•14 days ago

        Create a systemctl service for it, create a cron, or of there is a lot of interconnectivity between your containers look at something like K3S.