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Worth using Docker on Pi? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by Jacksaur@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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I'm planning to use my Pi for a few small services and nothing else. Currently it has my VPN and apcupsd installed directly, and I want to add Grafana, Prometheus and Uptime Kuma to it.
I was going to install Docker to use the last three, but ultimately, is it really needed? I won't be using the system for anything other than these purposes, and I just plan to set them up then almost never touch it again. Once it's set up I'm cloning the SD card too, so I don't need the centralized folder structure of Docker either.
And I'm already using Docker pretty heavilly on another server, so I don't need another environment to learn on either.

So with all that, is it worth installing Docker on my Pi to run these services? Or should I save a small amount of storage and processing power by just installing them direct to the system?

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[–] Comprehensive_Round@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. Using docker is not like running your services inside VMs. It's a pretty lightweight way of structuring your services, with the host kernel shared by all instances.

I run everything in Docker on my RPi 4 and it works very well.