Subj : Re: Synchronet vs Mystic vs ??
To   : Tracker1
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Apr 25 2023 19:32:00

-=> Tracker1 wrote to Gamgee <=-

 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>.

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

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

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

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

Just like the previous message of yours to me, this one makes no sense 
to me, either.  I don't do ANY of the things you describe, and I don't 
try to make things more complicated than they have to be, just because I 
think I can.


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