You may have noticed a few of my posts here, I am very interested in self-hosting and what advice can you give to a newbie? maybe some literature, video, I don’t know~

  • @TDCN@feddit.dk
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    11 year ago

    Hmm I should maybe have added that I only ever touched docker cli tools and have never used a front end of any kind. I do know that they exists, but I like having my fingers in the mechanical room so to speak so it gave me a quite steep learning curve writing my own docker compose files from scratch and learning the syntax, environment variables and volumes working manually. I still to this day only use cli version of Docker because its the only thing I ever learned.

    • @TCB13@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      writing my own docker compose files from scratch and learning the syntax, environment va

      But you know that most people don’t even do that. They simply download a bunch of pre-made yaml files and use whatever GUI. You would still learn more without docker.

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        1 year ago

        I can see that quickly becoming an issue if people just run random yaml files without understanding the underlying functions. I’m happy I never took that route because I leaned so much