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How do you set up a server? Do you do any automation or do you just open up an SSH session and YOLO? Any containers? Is docker-compose enough for you or are you one of those unicorns who had no issues whatsoever with rootless Podman? Do you use any premade scripts or do you hand craft it all? What distro are you building on top of?

I'm currently in process of "building" my own server and I'm kinda wondering how "far" most people are going, where do y'all take any shortcuts, and what do you spend effort getting just right.

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[–] porquenolosdos@exploding-heads.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sqlite where possible, nginx, linux, no containers. I hate containers.

[–] railsdev@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I’m somewhere in between. I hated containers for a long time but now work a lot with Kubernetes for work.

For my personal projects I’ve always hated containers a lot. Once I started learning how to build them and build them well however I really started enjoying it.

Using others’ containers is always hit or miss because a lot of them are WAY bloated. I especially hate all the docker-compose files that come with some database included as if I’m dying to run a ton of containerized database servers. Usually the underlying software supports the Postgres I run on the host itself.