Like any other project I run everything in a Docker container, and this project should be no different.
What is the advantage of this in this case?
What is the advantage of this in this case?
- I download the ISO for my system (Arch Linux)
- I install it on a drive
- I install docker and a (very) few other things
- I recover /etc/docker and data from a backup
- I run my docker-compose
- the server is up
Time: around 30 min to 1 hour without any documentation.
For me - THAT is the real power of docker.
That you can manage & think of this machine (program/process/container/vm) the same was as every other machine & dont have to ever ever ever ask "what should i do in this case?" or "what's right for this case?" because it's a unified answer that works well & operates the same everywhere.
Uniformity & no special cases. Death to pitiful old ways.
Much more recently I realized that this phenomenon of One Rule, One Exception falls under the umbrella of - or perhaps explains the effectiveness of - the Rule of Three. Two exceptions are bad, and work is partially pre-empted to correct that problem.
I now run it in a docker container because of this, but I can’t speak to OPs motivations
Not specific to PiHole, but perhaps keeping the OPs infrastructure management consistent may have monitoring and maintenance benefits.
And specifically mentioned in the very next sentence:
> The Pi Hole project already has a nice Docker project utilizing compose.
It is a supported configuration for PiHole so it fits in nicely, no need to even product their own docker based solution.
Not much of a docker user myself (I've tinkered, and we use it for some things in DayJob, but for my own stuff I use VMs or occasionally LCX if I do want a container instead), but the answer to your questions was really quite obvious.
Had I a convenient way to set it up in a Docker container, it would've been better. Of course, since I don't run anything in Docker at home, that would also constitute a special setup I have to maintain.
I used to run pihole on various Linux distros I was testing for home server stuff. It used to be that some distros needed a few packages added to support pihole properly but nowadays the app itself is more streamlined and/or most common distros include the minimum components. I think pihole did focus on streamlining to enable easier docker support which is where I should be putting my install whenever I get back to messing with the homelab. I've been working in windows systems for work so everything is currently Win Server based which plex doesn't seem happy with but is easier than running the whole thing as VMs on my older hardware.