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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I don’t think YunoHost uses containers, at least it didn’t the last time I used it. It installs applications natively.

    The best part about using containers for self hosting is that you don’t have to locally install dependencies for anything you want to run; they’re all inside the container. So if something doesn’t work, blow away the container and any data it created. Uninstalling a locally installed app can be a pain as you’re left with all the installed dependencies and any configuration that may not have been removed.

    Another benefit of containers is that it’s generally easy to update an app to a new version by downloading and running a newer version of the container and maybe running a migration command. Updating a locally installed app means installing newer versions of dependencies before running any migrations.

    The upshot is that I personally find containers easier and cleaner to deal with than locally installed apps.










  • The last place I worked, we had a cyber security team, whose job it was to send us CVEs to investigate. I mean random CVEs that had zero relevance to our systems or the technologies we used. Sometimes they sent us low level kernel type CVEs and expected us to explain why we weren’t affected. Mostly it was a waste of time. If they knew how to do their job, they’d have a list of technologies we used on each project and could filter out the irrelevant stuff, instead of wasting developer time.

    Grrrrrr!!