A question about image hosting and docker
reddit / selfhosted

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amca01 · 2023-11-21 14:56

This is something I've been meaning to "get around to" for a very long
time, and I got quite excited seeing a recent discussion about Immich.
And I looked at the various docker-compose files for Immich, and for
Piwigo, PiGallery2, and PhotoPrism.  Immich seems to require a number
of different containers, whereas the others seem much simpler.  That
is to say, the docker-compose file for Immich seems very complicated.

Is this, in fact, an issue?  Maybe I'm simply worrying about something
which is not a problem.

And for a more generic question: for software that requires a database
(as all image hosting does), do I need to start a new instance of
MariaDB (for example), or can I use the database engine that's been
set up in another container?  That is, can I have one running instance
of a database serving the needs of several different containers?

Thanks heaps, folks.

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clintkev251 · 2023-11-21 15:12

It's not a problem, more of an architectural choice, though Immich is
literally within the next release or two simplifying the deployment by
combining the roles of a handful of containers. As far as databases, I
tend to prefer one database container per application, just makes
management a bit easier since my services are in a constant state of
flux, and I don't find the resource overhead to be significant