I’m a retired Unix admin. It was my job from the early '90s until the mid '10s. I’ve kept somewhat current ever since by running various machines at home. So far I’ve managed to avoid using Docker at home even though I have a decent understanding of how it works - I stopped being a sysadmin in the mid '10s, I still worked for a technology company and did plenty of “interesting” reading and training.

It seems that more and more stuff that I want to run at home is being delivered as Docker-first and I have to really go out of my way to find a non-Docker install.

I’m thinking it’s no longer a fad and I should invest some time getting comfortable with it?

  • @RubberElectrons@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•11 months ago

    I’m basically the same here, used to be a sysmin too. Docker compose is running a couple of complicated inter-dependent services at my job as a first try for me, it’s been quite stable and clear on what’s happening within the containers.

    I really like how the docker setup files also become a source of truth documentation wise, particularly when paired with git.

    P.s. I know it’s a typo, but imagine a ‘black Friday upgrade’ for your server being a move from 4gb ram to 32mb. Return to monke 1998.