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by r00t4ccess 1440 days ago
I use to operate like this as well, but I bit the bullet and moved my apps to containers when upgraded my server hardware. Using portainer, mapping my container data to volumes on the file system. It was all incredibly easy to do and it gives me a web interface that I can manage my lab from my iPad. I rebuild my containers periodically through the gui by clicking the rebuild button and telling it to pull latest. It is so much easier to me at this point that installing a ton of packages that may or may not conflict into the operating system. Its all cleanly separated into isolated packages and management of versions and dependencies is much nicer as well.

My setup is portainer for container management on top of docker-ce, running on debian.