Pet peeve: had to check “Other” and write “None” several times but otherwise fun little survey. Results should be fun to look at.
You can also not answer questions by clicking next without an answer. I chose to understand “None” as skipping
Is using Docker Compose considered orchestration?
“No”
– everyone using compose to orchestrate software deployments
spoiler
Yes it is, and there’s a age old joke about docker being used for configuration management, which doesn’t require a container system.
No
I said yes. Then it asks what platform you use and I clicked “Docker”.
It asks this regardless of whether you say you use orchestration or not. I would say that docker compose, used as intended, is not a container orchestration platform as it provides no automated scaling or resiliency across nodes
I guess it depends on what “orchestration” means to you… 🤔
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestration_(computing)
In system administration, orchestration is the automated configuration, coordination, deployment, development, and management of computer systems and software.
Docker compose pretty much seems to check every one of these boxes.
Eh fair enough
I answered no since it mentions Swarm but I wasn’t sure either
The question about the single most favorite self hosted software is impossible to answer.
I also had to think, but I went for CloudPanel. Fantastic server manager software from Germany. Reverse proxy my docker containers with it. Lean. Stable. Reliable.
Fuck cPanel or Plesk with their bullshit licenses.
I struggled with that but for me i treated it as one I’ve been most hyped about this past year
Docker? Without it life would be difficult so self host
Why is this? I’ve never used docker before and when I set up my server a couple years ago, I installed Debian, Apache, and MariaDB and got everything set up relatively easily.
The problem is when one app requires a different apache(or some other random requisite) version than the other one, docker just deals with that so I don’t have to. That’s what I like about it.
Dependency hell is self-inflicted, but sparkle-junkie devs are complicit: it’s their fault they don’t know of long-term-support enterprise OSes and don’t use one as a primary port.
I actually just had to deal with this! So, I ended up spending time troubleshooting and rewriting some .conf files for Apache.
Because with docker you don’t even have to install and setup Apache and MariaDB. You run one command and it knocks out that whole process. Not go mention the security implications of completely seperating your software.
I can also speak from experience when I say it makes development and delivery of software soooo much easier. As a self hosted software developer I can promise you that if I created an instruction set to deploy the software I build bare metal rather than just containerizing it. No offense to fellow self hosters by any means, but if I require a multi step instruction set rather than a one liner docker command I will get more issues. Humans make mistakes, and when I can automate it out with container orchestration it absolutely makes it easier for the user.
I appreciate the response! When I set out to self-host, I made the decision to install everything separately, because I heard about docker and it sounded like, “plug in code and run”. And that’s something I didn’t want, only because it was a hobby and I wanted to learn more from a hands on experience. I learned a ton, sorting through those errors! If I did it over again, I’d probably use docker, based on your explanation, but I feel like that is an endeavor, in and of itself.
I named Bookwyrm. There isn’t so much going on update wise, but it’s a fun software with a nice community
For me it’s Bitwarden, hosting their stack in 2018 right after getting my first job launched me into everything else.
People age 70 and up are not allowed to self-host, I see.
Yeah minda weird. Also nobody below 12 years old is also not allowed.
Ah, but it’s how old you feel which is more important 😉
Maybe those statistics could be really interesting:
- How old do you feel when using proprietary software?
- How old do you feel when using FOSS?
B) I feel like I was much smarter when I was younger.
Done
filled! I’m looking forward to the results!
Definitely going to fill this out once I get some free time. What will the data be used for?
The results will be published on the website.
And here are lear years results
This one surprised me:
Otherwise I’m pretty much within the average. Except I don’t work in IT, but I already knew that makes me an outlier.
Make sure to post them to this sub would love to review them
It’s not my page but I subscribed to the RSS feed, will do if I don’t forget!
I may have skewed the results
I though that was the point of surveys?
