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Stefano Marinelli

The most ironic thing that happened today: searching for installation instructions for a software. I found various blog posts claiming to contain the instructions, only to open them and see they all say the same thing: "docker compose..."

What’s the point of an article like that? I mean: do we need an article suggesting such a simple operation?

#IT #Docker #SysAdmin

12 Oct 2024 at 20:51 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe
8 comments
Paul Wilde :blobcatnim: :dontpanic_nobg:

@stefano years ago I started rewriting a bunch of compose files for various projects into shell scripts with the intention of documenting why each step is running and why

Fun fact: Pleroma was my first one, which a handful of people actually started using to get their own instances running

Turns out I never got around to actually writing the documentation and I'm a terrible writer anyway, but maybe it's something I should pick up again

12 Oct 2024 at 21:00 | Open on notnull.space
Stefano Marinelli

@paul that's quite useful, as those compose files could be quite obscure to newcomers and maybe they'd be interested in knowing more about what they do.

12 Oct 2024 at 21:02 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe
Justin

@paul thank you for this! I love to be able to install things directly, no extra layers. I am often tempted to try document on a blog ways to install Docker-only software directly @stefano

13 Oct 2024 at 0:57 | Open on toot.io
unruhe

@stefano docker is a trend, like kubernetes

12 Oct 2024 at 21:01 | Open on mastodon.social
brendan
@stefano@bsd.cafe

Were the articles generated by an LLM by any chance? (I'm only half joking when I ask this...)
13 Oct 2024 at 0:39 | Open on social.brendans-bits.com
Justin

@stefano With my fellow #SysAdmin hat on, I hate Docker for software installs with a passion. I love it for building software, but that's it. That's where it belongs, in CI/CD.

13 Oct 2024 at 0:56 | Open on toot.io
DrScriptt

@justin @stefano why would you bother developing in / using Docker (et al.) if you weren’t also going to use Docker (…) for deployment?

Or asked another way why would you develop on a different framework than you would deploy on.

N.B. I’m not a fan of docker either.

13 Oct 2024 at 3:27 | Open on oldbytes.space
TomAoki

@stefano
If it is NOT documented officially, like casual standalone usage of poudriere.😅

13 Oct 2024 at 2:37 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe
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