Hi! Question in the title.

I get that its super easy to setup. But its really worthwhile to have something that:

  • runs everything as root (not many well built images with proper useranagement it seems)
  • you cannot really know which stuff is in the images: you must trust who built it
  • lots of mess in the system (mounts, fake networks, rules…)

I always host on bare metal when I can, but sometimes (immich, I look at you!) Seems almost impossible.

I get docker in a work environment, but on self hosted? Is it really worth while? I would like to hear your opinions fellow hosters.

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
    5•10 months ago
    1. I don’t run any of my containers as root
    2. Dockerfiles aren’t hard to read so you can pretty easily figure out what they’re doing
    3. I find managing dependencies for non-containerized services to be worse than one messy docker directory I never look at

    Plus having all my services in a couple docker-compose files also means I can move them around incredibly easily.