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Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps (reddthat.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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[–] 17 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I reject a lot of apps that require a docker compose that contains a database and caching infrastructure etc. All I need is the process and they ought to use SQLite by default because my needs are not going to exceed its capabilities. A lot of these self hosted apps are being overbuilt and coming without defaults or poor defaults and causing a lot of extra work to deploy them.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Some apps really go overboard, I tried out a bookmark collection app called Linkwarden some time ago and it needed 3 docker containers and 800MB RAM

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Databases.

    I ran PaperlessNGX for a while, everything is fine. Suddenly I realize its version of Postgresql is not supported anymore so the container won't start.

    Following some guides, trying to log into the container by itself, and then use a bunch of commands to attempt to migrate said database have not really worked.

    This is one of those things that feels like a HUGE gotcha to somebody that doesn't work with databases.

    So the container's kinda just sitting there, disabled. I'm considering just starting it all fresh with the same data volume and redoing all that information, or giving this thing another go...

    ...But yeah I've kinda learned to hate things that rely on database containers that can't update themselves or have automated migration scripts.

    I'm glad I didn't rely on that service TOO much.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Its a big problem. I also dump projects that don't automatically migrate their own SQLite scehema's requiring manual intervention. That is a terrible way to treat the customer, just update the file. Separate databases always run into versioning issues at some point and require manual intervention and data migration and its a massive waste of the users time.

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