Private DNS is disabled.

And even ping from tmux fails...

Absolutely! If that feels easier and more consistent go ahead and use the container.

But its really one single executable with zero dependencies. Manual setup is really as fast as podman pull & up -d.

Why would that have blocked all my databases at once? That would affect the same database I was migrating, not the others.

I fully agree with you that devs should not release debs&rpms&etc, that's distro responsibility to create and manage from the binaries that the devs should release. No Dev should have to create those distro-bases formats, it's evil and useless.

Let me be more clear: devs are not required to release binaries at all. Bit they should, if they want their work to be widely used. And in this case, providing also a binary release alongside images solves all freedom of choice issues in my opinion. Here you show me my lack of preparedness as I didn't considered docker files as actual build instructions, I will do in the future.

I also fully agree with you that curl+pipe+bash random stuff should be banned as awful practice and that is much worse than containers in general. But posting instructions on forums and websites is not per se dangerous or a bad practice. Following them blindly is, but there is still people not wearing seatbelts in cars or helmets on bikes, so..

I was not single containers out, I was replying to a post about containers. If you read my wiki, every time a curl/pipe/bash approach is proposed, I decompose it and suggest against doing that.

Chmod 777 should be banned in any case, but that steams from containers usage (due to wrongly built images) more than anything else, so I guess you are biting your own cookie here.

Having docker files and composer file is perfectly acceptable. What is not acceptable is having only those and no binary releases. Usually sources are available (in FOSS apps at least) but that can be useless if there are no building instructions provided or the app uses some less common build stack.

On Immich, which is a perfect example of an amazing piece of software fast growing and very polished, I did try to build from sources but I couldn't manage the ML part properly. This is indeed due to my lack of experience with the peculiar stack they are using, but some build instructions would have been appreciated greatly (now I realize I should have started from the docker files). I gave up and pulled the images. No harm done, but little extra fun for me, and while I do understand the devs position, they too keep talking about making a living out of it and that's a totally different point to discuss on a different thread. I would suggest them that public relations and user support is more important than actually releasing an amazing product for making a living out of it. But that's just my real world experience as product manager.

In a world where containers are the only proposed solution, I believe something will be taken from us all. Somebody else explained that concept better then me in this thread. That's all.

Why?

Radicale is a single executable, do you really need docker to set it up?

Basically takes the same time to set it up and run on bare metal...

Sometimes feels like docker is getting out of hand.

My database instances downtime is only when the server itself is rebooting. Never had a single downtime in 20+ years beside that.

Two or more ssds, the biggest you can afford, on a j-bod USB3 or USB-C enclosure. Raid them together on Linux software raid. As hardware, I use a power horse laptop, its more practical, but I had it spare. Buy a nice compromise between CPU power and power comsumpion, that depends on your feelings.

And use Gentoo :)

I have documented most of my steps here https://wiki.gardiol.org

Immich is awesome but has flaws. My workflow has improved with syncthing instead.

Main flaw of immich is being container's deployable only which hurts for various reasons, and devs priority are different from mine (that's unacceptable/irony).

Jokes aside, immich is the best app out there to replace google photos.

But immich require containers and some basic features like sub-path support and in general folder/albums recognition is not there and not really planned clearly for the future.

Gentoo. While a bit unusual, it's perfect for the job.

Check my wiki at https://wiki.gardiol.org where I document my Gentoo selfhost experience.

How is your librephoto experience so far?

Well, while much interesting indeed, i am not ready to install VSCode itself just for notes. I would prefer not to have the option to edit them online then.