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?

    • Bookmeat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      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.

      • uzay@infosec.pubEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Containers are useful for a lot more things than scaling. E.g. portability, ease of setup, dependency separation.

      • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        8 months ago

        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.

      • SDK@midwest.socialEnglish
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        8 months ago

        The confidence with which you make this factually incorrect statement is mind bending.

        • Bookmeat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 months ago

          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.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Get out of the anti container mindset. Getting started with docker takes half an hour. You need to learn 3-4 commands to use other people’s services. Everything is easier than RPMs afterwards.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Install docker: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/centos/

    Then running a container is just same as installing an RPM, except you don’t have to download it first. You just docker run the container.

    You can probably get regular old packages for a lot of stuff, but a lot of stuff is packaged as containers because it makes everything easier for both the maintainer and the user.