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Also the docker images now have a major tag v2 that should keep your installation up-to-date on the stable branch.

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[–] B0rax@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What would you prefer and why? Bare metal?

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk -1 points 1 day ago

Gotta chime in with a +1 for bare metal too...

[–] cevn@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Ideally yea. Rpm package with various architectures. 90% of other software is able to do it. I only use docker for immich and this would remove a dependency for me.

[–] B0rax@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why though? When you run multiple services on your machine, conflicts between these can cause headaches. Updating them is also often not trivial on bare metal. Let alone migrating to a newly set up machine (I suppose you could automate that with something like ansible)

[–] cevn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I run jellyfin, plex, mattermost, peertube, minecraft, all under one host. Never had anything conflict and just upgrade the rpms. Some of them use the same postgres database. Thats how I prefer to do things. I will use docker if absolutely forced, I know how, understand its easier to deploy etc. but I would rather it be the choice of the user instead of the software. Or if not rpm let me get in the source and run it.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 20 hours ago

(...) would rather it be the choice of the user (...)

And that's totally okay.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 20 hours ago

Well...Docker is my only dependency.

[–] upsidebeet@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] upsidebeet@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Containers are better than bare metal in every way

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 0 points 18 hours ago

Every way?

Well, apart from simplicity and security I suppose... and networking...

Oh, and storage...

But, before you think I'm arguing with you, I'm not... Containers have their place, VMs also, they are just for different uses.

In this case, I have a NAS, with Immich installed directly on it and I don't have to mess with any abstraction layers... and it all plays nice with the other applications.

Maybe yours is different... but mine is better on bare metal.