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I just start using my homelab to host some new good services, and I want to know what is the approach of a docker setup, what is the best distro for? How to deploy them correctly? Basically I'm a real noob in this subject. Thank you

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago (14 children)

Anything.

Personally I use Debian. But Docker doesn't care. I chose Debian because it is very stable and simple

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (8 children)

And what is the good way of deploying it? After pulling the image, how do we autostart it etc...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

At its simplest:

docker run -d --name servicename --restart unless-stopped container

That'll get you going. Youi'll have containers running, they restart, etc. There are more sophisticated ways of doing things (create a systemd file that starts/stops the container, use kubernetes, etc.) but if you're just starting this will likely work fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Are they starting automatically at boot?

EDIT : how do you run a container with a simple name instead of using his id?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes - they'll start automatically. There are other options for "restart" that define the behavior.

You can give whatever you like to "servicename" and use that rather than the ID.

For example:

docker run -d --name mysite --restart unless-stopped nginx

docker stop mysite

docker start mysite
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