Docker - trying to understand it

Xzib1t said:
I went the docker route for my media management and I couldn't be happier, just waiting for official support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

I have:
>SabNZBd
>Duplicati
>Sonarr, Radarr
>Hydra
>Deluge
>Portainer (effectively a Docker WebUI)
>Plex running in docker containers.

Considering moving my UniFi controller to a container as well. All of this ran perfectly fine on an old lenovo tower (i3 and 4 Gb of RAM)

Edit: Checkout: https://www.linuxserver.io/
Edit2: I should add that when I started on the docker journey I too had zero experience in Linux, especially looking at a blank terminal screen) :D
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xrapidx said:
Being portable at least makes the effort worth it, not sure how the Gen8 celeron CPU is going to cope.
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I have much older N36L mate and it runs quite happily.

However that's partly why I moved away from Windows to save on resources. Well that and the fact that Storage Spaces quietly ****ed me.

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Actually considered going to the Gen8 just to have some additional overhead. But probably popping another 4GB in there would be more efficient.
 
My @#%#$%#$ home-assistant on the pi died again and I'm not home.

So this evening I'm trashing my media-player and giving this a go :p

To get started, do I just need to install the host, and then docker community edition? (probably going to go with Ubuntu server - find linux easier to deal with via terminal than gui)
 
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xrapidx said:
My @#%#$%#$ home-assistant on the pi died again and I'm not home.

So this evening I'm trashing my media-player and giving this a go :p

To get started, do I just need to install the host, and then docker community edition? (probably going to go with Ubuntu server - find linux easier to deal with via terminal than gui)
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Yeah, download your preferred flavor of Linux, install docker, set up the containers, have a look at docker compose (allows you run all containers from a yml file), and you should be good to go.

With regard to the home automation stuff, I haven't gotten that far yet :)
 
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Xzib1t said:
Yeah, download your preferred flavor of Linux, install docker, set up the containers, have a look at docker compose (allows you run all containers from a yml file), and you should be good to go.

With regard to the home automation stuff, I haven't gotten that far yet :)
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If you're just going to be using docker, I strongly suggest RancherOS.
 
Sinbad said:
If you're just going to be using docker, I strongly suggest RancherOS.
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My fear here is using something specific for Docker, and then finding something I want to run that won't work... not sure if this will actually happen - as I have zero experience with Docker :p
 
xrapidx said:
My fear here is using something specific for Docker, and then finding something I want to run that won't work... not sure if this will actually happen - as I have zero experience with Docker :p
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Then go with FreeNAS. Deploy a rancherOS VM (comes standard with freenas 11), and then you can deploy other VM guests if you like.
That being said, you can put almost anything into a container :D
 
Think I might just give rancherOS a go initially - as these are containers I can always redo the host if it becomes a problem.

Just realised this is my last Windows machine - which means I'm going to loose access to a couple of apps I need, will have to find a solution.
 
xrapidx said:
My @#%#$%#$ home-assistant on the pi died again and I'm not home.

So this evening I'm trashing my media-player and giving this a go :p

To get started, do I just need to install the host, and then docker community edition? (probably going to go with Ubuntu server - find linux easier to deal with via terminal than gui)
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I have been using this tutorial for Docker on Ubuntu https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-docker-on-ubuntu-16-04

I've also been playing with Rancher and would recommend it. Probably worth playing with Docker and Docker Compose on their own first to familiarise yourself with the basics first
 
Can't even get this damn gen8 into the bios. Think it doesnt like my keyboard. Might try something with ilo tomorrow, see if I can get something working.
 
Switching to Ubuntu - rancher is a pain in the ass. Keeps prompting for a password, even though it accepts the keys.

EDIT Pebkac error... ****ing caps lock was on. 30min of struggling using my tablet and ilo
 
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Up and running with RancherOS - question though, starting off the SABnzbd - I want to write incomplete/complete downloads to a NAS folder, not the local machine.. whats the current way of going about it?

At the moment I've set it up to mount the share in the cloud-config file

Duan said:
Just do this: https://youtu.be/LTRrqISBHEM

Trust me you won’t regret it!
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Might look into that later...
 
You create a mount in the cloud config file, eg, /mnt/downloads and mount the NAS share on this

Then when you create the container, you use -v /mnt/downloads:/downloads

This presents /mnt/downloads on the host to /downloads in the container
 
Basically what I've done. Thanks. Didn't want to get too far doing the wrong thing.
 
Is it possible to access samba shares in the format of \\servername\sharename without mounting it?

Trying to restore sonarr, but having issues wit h the previous share format.
 
xrapidx said:
Is it possible to access samba shares in the format of \\servername\sharename without mounting it?

Trying to restore sonarr, but having issues wit h the previous share format.
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I doubt it. Not 100 percent sure, but really don't think so.
 
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