The last post on the subject I could find was a year ago. So thought I would ask again. I have debian 12 up on miniPC and I have my NAS mounted. My intention is to use jellyfin and some of the arr* stuff. I know only a little about systemd (I just google what I need to know). I have some contianer knowledge, but mostly in k8s. And the docker parts aren't really my problem. But I have a vague understanding of docker. What are the latest pros and cons of containers vs service installation?

Edit: The opinions were unanimous. Containers it is.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

My very limited takes:

I run everything inside containers ,+ traefik (*arr + jelly)
I have no issues with dependencies. Ever
Linuxserver.io is the shit. Real bros!

[–] SailorsLife 1 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

What is the role of traefik? I looks like networking software for something more like a k8s cluster with lots of pods going up and down all the time. We use linkerd at my job which seems like it has some overlap. But they both seem like overkill when running on a single node system unless I am missing something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I just use it as a reverse proxy but afaik it can be used as a load balancer and many more uses.

[–] SailorsLife 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

And you are using a reverse proxy because you want to expose jellyfin to the general internet? And you don't want to have to trust jellyfin's security (which is very reasonable) ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Yup. I also use Authelia as a middleware for additional TOTP 2FA.
Only downside: It breaks any app support as I can't just expose the API and be done with it. So remote playback is not possible and right now VPN is too mich of a hassle to set up.