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Docker for NAS devices is the de facto App Store. The most compelling applications are for media consumption / piracy.

I'm using Unraid for my NAS currently. It hosts pihole, a local nginx proxy, and a unifi controller in addition to other containers. I can also throw on some docker containers to build chromium and other large projects in their target environments.

Your setup looks interesting. Would be great if you could write a blog about your setup.

I’ve been looking into this lately for mine. Definitely need to invest more time. What NAS are you running?

I'm not who you asked but Synology is pretty nice. Runs Docker nicely and lots of applications available for it. Recommend an Intel CPU based vs the ARM based Synology NAS systems. I use it to run various software for my home network.

I second Synology. Runs my ArchiveTeam docker container, any docker container really without issue. Also accepts TimeMachine backups from my Macs and backs everything up to Backblaze B2.

Why do you recommend Intel over ARM?

I wouldn't say this is a universal "ARM vs Intel" claim, just a specific heuristic for this company's products.

Synology's ARM line is generally underpowered compared to their Intel offerings, in terms of clock speed, memory capacity, and core count. They also tend to gate additional features (e.g. hardware-accelerated encryption) behind their Intel offerings.

edit: We're mostly talking Atoms / Celerons here, so not exactly screaming performance either way.

Unless something has changed in the past year, Docker and Virtual Machines are only supported on their Intel devices and not the ARM ones.

There are third-party package managers for the ARM devices but there are a lot of broken packages so I wouldn't recommend using it.

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