Subj : Re: Synchronet vs Mystic vs ??
To   : Gamgee
From : Tracker1
Date : Tue Apr 25 2023 18:58:11

 Ga> I've never really seen the point of docker. Seems like a lot of extra 
 Ga> work for..... what? Security? I'm on a home LAN and am not worried 
 Ga> about that. As for backups etc... not sure how it could really be 
 Ga> easier than an automated rsync (or similar) every night, to both a LAN 
 Ga> device, and an off-location device. But anyway.... <SHRUG>.

All around, just easier to deal with in terms of automation and different software on a given system with less overhead than full VMs.  The software is packaged with all its dependencies.  This generally means if a given version of Library X works with software A, but software B requires a different version, you get a gold copy of each software with what *it* needs.

The reasons to do so are very similar to why you might run separate VMs for different software installs, without the overhead of full VMs and a few other benefits as well. Such as compose, swarm, k8s and other options that let you run not just a given software, but related softwares as well.  If you run something that requires a database service, redis cache, traefik proxy, etc... you can have this all defined in a single stack that will stand up and communicate with the other services appropriately.

Backup is roughly the same, except you don't really need to trapse around for config files over hear, other options there, and data somewhere else.  It's in one root.  Of course with synchronet, this generally also means your executables are there too, which is one thing you don't typically want with a Docker image as the image is meant to contain the executables, and all the data/storage is in volume mounts that are separate.

Upgrading is generally just run the new version against the same data volumes and it transparently upgrades and is now running the new version against your existing data, no muss, no fuss.
  
   
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