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Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps (reddthat.com)

submitted 22 hours ago by mrnobody@reddthat.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Anyone else just sick of trying to follow guides that cover 95% of the process, or maybe slightly miss a step and then spend hours troubleshooting setups just to get it to work?

I think I just have too much going in my "lab" the point that when something breaks (and my wife and/or kids complain) it's more of a hassle to try and remember how to fix or troubleshoot stuff. I lightly document myself cuz I feel like I can remember well enough. But then it's a style to find the time to fix, or stuff is tested and 80%completed but never fully used because life is busy and I don't have loads of free time to pour into this stuff anymore. I hate giving all that data to big tech, but I also hate trying to manage 15 different containers or VMs, or other services. Some stuff is fine/easy or requires little effort, but others just don't seem worth it.

I miss GUIs with stuff where I could fumble through settings to fix it as is easier for me to look through all that vs read a bunch of commands.

Idk, do you get lab burnout? Maybe cuz I do IT for work too it just feels like it's never ending...

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[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Once you understand them, I suppose its easier. I've got a mix of win10, Linux VMs, RPis, and docker.

Having grown up on Windows, it's second nature now and I do it for work too. I stated on Linux only around 2010 or so but kept flipping between the2 . anymore, trying to cut the power bill and went RPi but also trying to cut others and so docker is still relatively new in the last few years. Understand that I also do it few and far between at times on projects so is hard to dedicate time to learn enough to be comfortable. It also didn't help I started on Docker Desktop and apparently everyone hates that and may have been a part of my problem adopting it.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I probably also started with linux seriously around that time frame. I was also a Windows admin back then. Transitioning to Linux and containers was the best thing ever. You get out of dependency hell and having kruft all over your filesystem. I'm extremely biased though, I work for Red Hat now. Containers and Linux are my day job.

[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Dang, how'd you make that transition? Are you a dev or SWE?

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

I just liked linux better so I learned it. That's kind of my whole career, I want to do something so I get certified in it and start looking to get into it. I'm in consulting. I come in and help people setup OpenShift while teaching them how to use it and then move on to the next customer.