Hello! I need a guide on how to migrate data from shared hosting to Docker. All the guides I can find are about migrating docker containers though! I am going to use a PaaS - Caprover which sets up everything. Can I just import my data into the regular filesystem or does the containerisation have sandboxed filesystems? Thanks!

  • krolden@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    https://docs.docker.com/storage/volumes/

    Just move your data and then either create bind mounts to those directories or create a new volume in docker and copy the data to the volume path in your filesystem.

    I also suggest looking into podman instead of docker. Its basically a drop in replacement for docker.

    • BlinkerFluid@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah I saw this post and thought “what a coincidence, I’m looking to move from docker!”

      Everybody’s going somewhere, I suppose.

      • krolden@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        podman generate systemd really sold it for me. Also the auto update feature is great. No more need for watchtower.

        • BlinkerFluid@lemmy.oneEnglish
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          1 year ago

          My one… battlefield with docker was trying to have a wireguard VPN system in tandem with an adguard DNS filter and somehow not have nftables/iptables not have a raging bitch fit over it because both wireguard and docker edit your table entries in different orders and literally nothing I did made any difference to the issue, staggering wireguard’s load time, making the entries myself before docker starts (then resolvconf breaks for no reason). Oh, and they also exist on a system with a Qbittorrent container that connects to a VPN of its own before starting. Yay!

          And that’s why all of that is on a raspberry pi now and will never be integrated back into the image stacks on my main server.

          Just… fuck it, man. I can’t do it again. It’s too much.

    • anarchotaoist@links.hackliberty.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Thanks! I will have to research volumes! Bind mount - that would mean messing with fstab, yes? I set up a bind for my desktop but entering mounts in fstab has borked me more than once!