The last post on the subject I could find was a year ago. So thought I would ask again. I have debian 12 up on miniPC and I have my NAS mounted. My intention is to use jellyfin and some of the arr* stuff. I know only a little about systemd (I just google what I need to know). I have some contianer knowledge, but mostly in k8s. And the docker parts aren’t really my problem. But I have a vague understanding of docker. What are the latest pros and cons of containers vs service installation?

  • d_k_boEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    There are different ways to run container. I run them via podman-systemd services. For me, the main benefits of running a container over an executable on the host system are the following:

    • not everything I want to self-host is packaged for my distro, but they all have container images available
    • operating system updates are independent from application updates, application updates are independent from each other. One broken dependency won’t kill my entire stack
    • all containers are running without root privileges and with restricted access to the host system. One vulnerable application won’t give access to my entire system
    • I can have all my config in one directory (~/.config/containers/systemd/), instead of having them across multiple /etc/* directories
    • volume bind mounts make it easy to declaratively mount any folder anywhere, so I can keep my directory structure how I like it
    • cockpit offers a great UI to visualize my hosted applications