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What's the deal with Docker? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 8 months ago by AlexPewMaster@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I never understood how to use Docker, what makes it so special? I would really like to use it on my Rapsberry Pi 3 Model B+ to ease the setup process of selfhosting different things.

I'm currently running these things without Docker:

  • Mumble server with a Discord bridge and a music bot
  • Maubot, a plugin-based Matrix bot
  • FTP server
  • Two Discord Music bots

All of these things are running as systemd services in the background. Should I change this? A lot of the things I'm hosting offer Docker images.

It would also be great if someone could give me a quick-start guide for Docker. Thanks in advance!

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[-] loudwhisper@infosec.pub 1 points 8 months ago

I wouldn't say that namespaces are virtualization either. Container don't virtualize anything, namespaces are all inherited from the root namespaces and therefore completely visible from the host (with the right privileges). It's just a completely different technology.

[-] steakmeoutt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

The word you’re all looking for is sandboxing. That’s what containers are - sandboxes. And while they a different approach to VMs they do rely on some similar principals.

[-] pztrn@bin.pztrn.name 1 points 8 months ago

I never said that it is a virtualization. Yet for easy understanding I named created namespaces "virtualized". Here I mean "virtualized" = "isolated". Systemd able to do that with every process btw.

Also, some "smart individuals" called comtainerization as type 3 hypervisors, that makes me laugh so hard :)

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