Hello! Thanks to everyone who helped me yesterday, but I could not solve the issue. I however identified the problem. I opened a new thread to better focus on the real problem.
I just set up a debian server, installed docker from the official repo and then immich using docker compose. When I run docker compose up -d (after a few seconds) my server loses internet connectivity: it can access local addresses (I can ssh into it) but cannot access the internet: ping linux.org fails.
if I put down immich (docker compose down) it starts working again. the issue is probably that docker is creating a network bridge that conflicts with the host.
After searching the web, I tried to create /etc/docker/daemon.json like this:
{
"bip": "172.18.0.1/24",
"default-address-pools": [
{"base": "172.19.0.0/16", "size": 24}
]
}
after the changes systemctl restart docker, then wait 10 seconds for everything to restart correctly.
I tried different configurations of addresses here (every stackoverflow answer gave different values, so I tried all of them), but none of them worked. I don't know how to get which values to put here (if this is actually the solution)
a strange behavior I observed is that running ip route flush 0/0 temporary solves the problem, until the restart of docker, and Immich works normally (at least the "normal" behavior, I don't know if this affects some functionalities)
Any tips? This is my really first experience in self hosting and I have to admit it, I thought it would have been easier :P
In case you'll need it, here's the output of ip addr show:
0.0.0.0 dev veth4c84e92 scope link
0.0.0.0 dev veth1f88dcc scope link
0.0.0.0 dev vethda721de scope link
0.0.0.0 dev vethd123481 scope link
0.0.0.0 dev veth23a05f6 scope link
default dev veth4c84e92 scope link # this line and the line below disappear after the flush
default dev veth1f88dcc scope link # (this one)
default via 192.168.1.1 dev enp1s0
169.254.0.0/16 dev veth23a05f6 proto kernel scope link src 169.254.6.247
169.254.0.0/16 dev vethd123481 proto kernel scope link src 169.254.226.60
169.254.0.0/16 dev vethda721de proto kernel scope link src 169.254.248.163
169.254.0.0/16 dev veth1f88dcc proto kernel scope link src 169.254.136.146
169.254.0.0/16 dev veth4c84e92 proto kernel scope link src 169.254.29.133
169.254.0.0/16 dev enp1s0 scope link metric 1000
172.16.0.0/20 dev br-237d14e56e71 proto kernel scope link src 172.16.0.1
172.18.0.0/24 dev docker0 proto kernel scope link src 172.18.0.1 linkdown
192.168.1.0/24 dev enp1s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.4
192.168.1.1 dev enp1s0 scope link
EDIT: I gave up. I removed debian and installed fedora, and now it all works like a charm
Humm... this seems rather strange. Maybe show us you docker-compose to have a look on how you configured immich's network?
169.254.0.0/16 are APIPA addresses . So this a network misconfiguration.
This is not how you configure a docker network. This is only used if your local networks overlaps with docker's defaut network.
The easiest way i can think on how to make your docker-compose work is to reinstall docker and use the host network. DO NOT forget to delete the
/etc/docker/daemon.jsonfile in case you want a fresh start. This seems a badly network configuration on you docker stack !This will give you a good starting point! After that try to configure a bridge network for your docker compose.
Normally after you get the gist on how docker works, it's rather easy!
I didn't change anything, just followed the instructions on the wiki:
I'll try as soon as I can and post here the results, thanks for the time and help!
oops, I have lots to learn I guess XD
First find out what's your debian network configuration if it's a fresh install and everything is installed by default, you get your ip and network from DHCP
If your ethernet or wifi networks is in the inet 172.17.0.1/16 brd 172.17.255.255 range it overlaps with the default docker bridge network.
Immich isn't the easiest docker stack ! I will up it on my own server and give you some feedback.
Because their isn't any network configuration in the compose it uses the default docker network. Thus... maybe... it overlaps with your own network, that's what your first post was about :)
I will look into it and if nobody comes up with an anwser before me, will give you some feedback on how it went and try to find out what's wrong !
I "solved" giving up. I installed fedora after hours of pain, and now all works flawlessly
thank you very much for your help!!
So I got it up and running in 10 minutes just by copy/pasting the
docker-compose.yamland.envfiles. So their configuration files are working flawlessly.Either you have a router misconfiguration or a docker network misconfiguration. Either way If I were you I would first start without duckdns.org domain name and without to much complex network configuration. Start slow and build up to more complex configurations.
The important part is to make your laptop have internet access without changing to much, the default DHCP works great !
/etc/docker/daemon.json)docker-compose.yamland.envfrom immich's githubIf your network configuration is wrong from the beginning, you are in for bad times specially if you are going to use duckdns ! Try to make it work on your local network first and than you can go crazy.
Also if you do not know what you are doing, please don't make your containers accessible to the web ! Rather use a wireguard server to access all your containers from everywhere in the world with a secure tunnel !
If you're a beginner, there is alot to grasp before having a good working laptop server :)
after hours I tried to change distribution and went with fedora, set up everything, installed immich, not a single problem, it all works, also duckdns, and now I also have btrfs so I can snapshot my system. I'm probably very unlucky with debian based distributions, on my main laptop I had many problems with ubuntu as first distro, I had to distro hop a bit to find my place in EndeavourOS
thank you very very very very much for your time and help, I really appreciate this! now it's time to actually start this journey in the magic world of self-hosting!
Good to know ! Have fun self-hosting ! :D