I’m a generalist SysAdmin. I use Linux when necessary or convenient. I find that when I need to upgrade a specific solution it’s often easier to just spin up an entirely new instance and start from scratch. Is this normal or am I doing it wrong? For instance, this morning I’m looking at a Linux VM whose only task is to run Acme.sh to update an SSL cert. I’m currently upgrading the release. When this is done I’ll need to upgrade acme.sh. I expect some kind of failure that will require several hours to troubleshoot, at which point I’ll give up and start from scratch. I’m wondering if this is my ignorance of Linux or common practice?
Dockerfile, especially for something like a CLI app like that. Change your dockerfile and rebuild when you need to upgrade.
Yeah, my first thought was “this is doing containers the hard way”.
lxc and docker are your friends.
Yah, and we aren’t the first, of course: https://github.com/mraming/docker-nginx-acme