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We Need to Talk About Docker Hub

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128 points darthShadow | 3 comments | 24 Jan 25 11:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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ricardbejarano ◴[24 Jan 25 12:15 UTC] No.42812378[source]▶
Run your own registry.
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TZubiri ◴[24 Jan 25 12:20 UTC] No.42812415[source]▶
Or run no registry. Here's a port from a Dockerfile to just a vm:

FROM Debian

CMD apt-get install thing

CMD curl blabla/install.sh

Pretty much converts to:

aws-cli ec2 launch-instance

ssh user@server apt-get install thing

ssh user@server curl blabla/install.sh

In general, everytime you dispense of a high level abstraction, the solution is not to replicate the high level abstraction, but to build directly at a lower level abstraction.

If you want to replace burgers, just buy a slab of meat and put it in the fire or bake your own bread. You don't need to make preservants and buy artificial sweeteners, etc...

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the-grump ◴[24 Jan 25 12:41 UTC] No.42812553{3}[source]▶
Yeah, no.

I'm not only using containers to deploy my VPSes.

Thank you for trying.

P.S. at least use something declarative and provider-agnostic like terraform.

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1. TZubiri ◴[24 Jan 25 13:21 UTC] No.42812782{4}[source]▶
What else are you using containers for?
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2. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[24 Jan 25 16:46 UTC] No.42814883[source]▶
Testing things on my laptop and deploying services to my home lab. Both benefit enormously from the minimal overhead, fast deployment, and ease of completely removing a service once I'm done with it.
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3. TZubiri ◴[24 Jan 25 22:04 UTC] No.42817362[source]▶
Ah yes, that was one of the main selling points of docker early on, fixing the "works on my machine".

The way I solve that problem is by working directly on testing/staging servers which have the same specs as production.

I almost never run stuff on my local machine, and if I do it's a well isolated piece of code whose IO signature I know exactly and I can mock external systems with ease.