I would go one further and recommend installing Portainer too. Install Docker, then find the code to install Portainer. Then you can log in to Portainer and use that to manage Docker.
I’ve tried to use Docker for a number of years (and succeeded!) but have recently used Portainer and found it so much easier.
I now install the Portainer client on every instance of Docker that I use and track them all through a single IP address on my lan.
I had read about Docker Compose but never followed it up. But now with Portainer I’ve come to realise that “Compose” is “Stacks” in Portainer. So now I can just open up my Portainer and copy/paste a compose into a stack and save it, and it fires up the programme for me.
If I want to replicate that program somewhere else I can either copy/paste my stack, or use the “replicate” function to just add it to another machine.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !selfhosted@lemmy.world
A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don’t control.
Rules:
Be civil: we’re here to support and learn from one another. Insults won’t be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
No spam posting.
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it’s not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
Don’t duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
No trolling.
Resources:
selfh.st Newsletter and index of selfhosted software and apps
Yes, that would work. Highly recommend installing docker and running in containers. (Except Tailscale, probably; that would be native.)
Thanks for also recommending docker! I’ve read about it, but I was not sure if it would be useful here.
I would go one further and recommend installing Portainer too. Install Docker, then find the code to install Portainer. Then you can log in to Portainer and use that to manage Docker.
I’ve tried to use Docker for a number of years (and succeeded!) but have recently used Portainer and found it so much easier.
I now install the Portainer client on every instance of Docker that I use and track them all through a single IP address on my lan.
I had read about Docker Compose but never followed it up. But now with Portainer I’ve come to realise that “Compose” is “Stacks” in Portainer. So now I can just open up my Portainer and copy/paste a compose into a stack and save it, and it fires up the programme for me.
If I want to replicate that program somewhere else I can either copy/paste my stack, or use the “replicate” function to just add it to another machine.
Thank you so much! I was just about to list up all my services to get the right architecture, and I’ve added Portainer to my list.
This is a get-started guide I found for Portainer if anyone else is interested.
I’ve run TS and PiHole natively on a Pi Zero W, hardly even makes the CPU run, with Syncthing on it too.
Max CPU was 30%, and that was while making config changes.
Also used it as a Subnet Router for TS - so it was routing RDP connections, etc.
https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/#one-step-automated-install