how the hell do I find docker
Type “docker” in terminal and hit enter. Since it’s installed, your system will likely recognize it as a command and populate a help menu for you. You’ll want to visit docker’s website for a full manual.
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I strongly suggest that you install portainer if this is your first time playing with docker.
It'll make your life and learning curve dramatically easier.
I'm not suggesting you dont learn how to do it all over CLI (I actually think CLI is way easier and faster to deploy once you get the hang of it), but if you're looking to deploy something right away, I believe portainer is your best bet.
This. I had the same issue, and just about every tutorial focuses on the command line, and I get why... It's way more powerful and actually becomes the standard that people who are using docker repeatedly would need to learn.
That being said, this was my first foray into containerizing things since VMware became a thing. So I needed a UI that felt familiar and helped me understand some of the Dockers specific settings and configurations. This was a godsend in helping me get things up and running, and then later I had to learn how to do it properly with docker compose.
For what it's worth, I still keep my portainer instance running, and use it for some administration stuff like resets, but I think it helps smooth my learning curve. Docker via the command line exclusively pretty much requires you to understand all of the notions and concepts involved.
That's exactly right. I run UnRaid as my NAS, and not a single docker has been installed from their app store. I also still have Portainer running (at this point I have no idea why anymore, since I haven't used it in over a year) and it barely uses any resources. Portainer was my first shot at docker containers, and I'll always be grateful to the developers. I doubt I would have continued learning Docker if Portainer had not existed.
Docker is a pain in the dick
Only for people that dont understand the basics
Is there a Linux for people who are deeply entrenched in how Windows works?
Zorin is this, though your choice of Mint is good too. It will not help you understand docker though.
If you're trying to do Audibookshelf on a home server CasaOS made docker super easy for me.
This is another very good option.
AI can be of great help when learning docker, as it is genuinely super confusing. You don't "find" docker, it's a terminal program that you interact with... From the terminal.
I'm gonna get A LOT of hate for this, but check out Warp terminal. It has a really nice GUI for configuration and really nice autocomplete for commands.
Why should you get hate for the warp terminal? I’ve never used it but it looks quite nice.
@llii @Presi300 It was made for apple users and evidently so (it's basically #alacritty and #tmux but closed source, cloud-based and with some AI bullcrap on top of it)
Ok, this isn't for me than.
I mean, you can call literally any more advanced terminal "alacritty with tmux", but I don't think that's fair. And I for one find Warp's AI features fairly useful. It's also as I mentioned above got a really nice autocomplete and configuration UI. (It's autocomplete is an absolute godsent when it comes to dealing with docker...)
I would enjoy training a LLM on my aggregated command history and using that for auto completion, or maybe using an open source one trained on a larger set from the community, but I am very uncomfortable sending data about every command (as I'm writing it!) to any company.
Because it's closed source and requires a sign in. Imo worth it, as it's a very nice terminal.
Because it requires you to sign in with the cloud and bloated
Oh, that's a no from me then.
Apt install docker.io
docker run -d -p 8000:8000 -p 9443:9443 --name portainer --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce:latest
Go to IP:8000 and now you can build docker compose stacks. A far easier way to learn docker.
OP this is the answer but Ill provide simple steps in case this is not clear enough:
- Install docker
- Install docker-compose
- Install portainer (command from the post above)
- open Portainer GUI in browser using IP:8000 (from here you can do everything in GUI)
- go to stacks and create a new stack
- edit docker-compose for audiobookshelf - modify folder paths for volumes (example - change
./audiobooks:/audiobooksto/path/to/folder:/audiobooks) - paste that in stack and hit deploy
- go to IP:13378 to open Audiobookshelf GUI
- enjoy
one of my portainer instances completely broke a few months ago because of a failed db migration after an update. i've been using dockge ever since and i'm happy with it. it stores every stack you deploy as a docker-compose file on your regular filesystem, so if it ever breaks you can just edit the files instead
I never tried dockage, but portainer also stores all docker-compose on filesystem (probably at var/lib/docker/volumes/portainer_data/_data/compose). You can also use "backup" button in GUI to download everything in single tar.gz archive. Folder structure is not the best, but its not hard to figure out. I'm not saying portainer is better though
Oh that is nice. Yeah I tend not to use portainer nowadays but when I was learning docker it was a godsend. I'll look into dockge though :)
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