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After trying out Cosmos Cloud (and it not working for the clients), I'm back at square one again. I was going to install Docker Desktop, but I see it warns that it runs on a VM. Will this be a problem when trying to remote connect to certain services, like Mealie or Jellyfin?

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why run Docker Desktop when it's installable as a cli service?

What are you actually trying to achieve?

[–] Hezaethos@piefed.zip 7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

ease of use.

I'm a noob at networking.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

there's only one way to get better at it. by doing it.

[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

Or if it’s not something that’s valuable to you just do it the easy way.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Don't think Docker Desktop would simplify networking, unless it added a new feature since I last used it ~2 years ago.

[–] squinky@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Docker Desktop isn’t needed on Linux. If you want a UI, try Portainer

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Just throw your services in a docker-compose.yml file, create a docker bridge network, and assign the:

networks:
    - YourDockerNetwork

To the services in the yaml file, specify the ports it want’s to open with

ports:
    - 8080:8080

And let it start up. If you want to get more complicated suggest reading the man page which really isn’t that long of a read.

Networking really cannot be simplified, you have to view it in a logistical way of how is Point A communicating with Point B which where Docker bridge networks come into play, they make the communication easy, if all your containers are all on the same docker network all you have to do is specify http://ContainerName:Port for them to communicate back and forth internally.

[–] ser@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Check out CasaOS. Really easy to set up.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What does networking have to do with docker? You haven't explained what you're trying to achieve.

[–] Hezaethos@piefed.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Access containers remotely

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As a Mac user who's migrated over to Linux over the past year or so, I've got an idea of where OP is coming from.

Docker on macOS is accessed via a Desktop GUI, so you can easily see what you have installed, how it's running, etc... So when I shifted over to Linux, I was thrown off by there being no such tool. I wasn't used to using a terminal to do everything, and grumbled quite a lot about there being no Docker Desktop GUI, given how many self-hostable services run through Docker.

I've since gotten used to it, but it really is quite jarring.

[–] Mordikan@kbin.earth 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are a lot of Docker GUI tools out there. There just isn't Docker Desktop. Here are a few:

  1. Portainer
  2. Podman Desktop
  3. Yacht (pretty sure this is unmaintained currently but still should work)
[–] djdarren@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

Oh aye, I get it. But when you're new to the platform and trying to work with tools that are familiar, you don't know about any of that.