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I have been fiddling with trying to build a Dockerfile and container for the following.

A Alpine Linix image with LFTP, cron, & openssh installed for use with my external server to sync folders.

I have a Alpine Linix VM that I connect with a external server using SSH keys, and a cron task running a LFTP script on schedule.

Any help or pointing me at a container you know of is appreciated.

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[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 day ago

~~why~~ You can create initful container (don't know if it possible with alpine) and run as many services inside it as you desire. Crons are pretty clunky inside containers and it's a lot easier to just run them from host using docker/podman container exec, writing containerfiles is pretty easy as well.