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Im trying to find an easy way to do this. All the things I've found make it out to be pretty complex.

I have a synology nas, im somewhat knowledgeable but a lot of terms go over my head.

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[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I have yet to mess with docker but see it talked about non stop. What is the benefit ? Is it like flatpak where it sandboxes everything?

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Kinda. It's kinda like a VM, but is more integrated with the host system so less overhead is required. A full VM, on the other hand, requires more overhead because it emulates everything, including the CPU, memory, storage controller, etc etc.

This should help explain it:

I like to run Docker stacks (via docker compose - believe me, it's absolutely worth the headache to learn YAML) within VMs that are dedicated specifically to Docker and nothing else. It's much easier to handle Docker stacks this way, especially if you're a tinkerer, that way when you inevitably fuck up your Docker co fig, you can just blow away the VM and start from scratch without having to rebuild your entire server 😅