Ideally, there’d be a simple RPM installer compatible with Alma 9 that I can point to a samba share that holds all the photos, kind of like what I do with Jellyfin. Also nice if it uses an otherwise unused port or I can easily set what port it uses.
My googling is finding a bunch of docker stuff, which always seems needlessly complicated to me vs an RPM… I’m also using a low powered x86 tiny computer to front JellyFin and would like to host this on the same computer vs needing another server.
Any ideas?
Containers are really only useful for scaling. I suppose there’s some benefit to isolation, but it’s not really that much better than just using correct permissions with SElinux.
OP is kinda right. Containers get overused unnecessarily.
They’re also useful because they’re easy to deploy, contain all the dependencies needed, portable, and isolate things breaking from affecting the host or other containers.
Containers are useful for a lot more things than scaling. E.g. portability, ease of setup, dependency separation.
The confidence with which you make this factually incorrect statement is mind bending.
Sure, let’s add another layer of complexity for the user to set up their network, storage, and other external resources and call it easier and simpler.
My point isn’t that containers are bad. It’s just that there is often a push to containerise workloads that don’t require containers.