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As a person who spent way too many hours self-hosting stuff as a (pre)teen and beyond, I have to say that Docker (or Podman, or anything equivalent) has been a godsend. I know it's not popular for many here in HN for whatever reason but once you wrap your head around it, it doesn't make any sense to go back to non-containerized workloads - it's just so convenient and nice.

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There are people in careers today who have no idea how much of a pain it was to self-host non-containerized applications.

LAMP, MEAN, RoR, “bare” php scripts, binaries with super-specific requirements, running multiple apps on bare-metal…

Truly trial by fire.

I use both Docker and non-containerized apps.

In my opinion, setting up LAMP is easier than Docker.

Setting up LAMP is just copy-pasting a few install commands:

    apt install apache2 php libapache2-mod-php mariadb-server php-mysql
    mysql_secure_installation
    ufw allow http
    ufw allow https
    ufw enable

I don't understand the claim that containers aren't popular with the HN crowd. IMHO containers are the one tech that seems to be universally used among the HN crowd.

I use containerisation for all my workloads. But I don’t use Docker.

I prefer simpler/less abstract container technologies like systemd-nspawn or LXC. With those I always know what’s actually happening on my system.

Docker is IMO too much black box and voodoo.

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