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by kalib_tweli
787 days ago
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The hard part here is idempotency. Ansible is great for a programmer because it's learning for fun. And you just have to spar with your machine to get good. But for a non-programmer, it's understandable you don't want to be bother with the inner workings of your OS and how to maintain Ansible script idempotency. And for every piece of software you want to run on your server, the idempotency task grows more difficult. My honest opinion? Tolerate the learning curve for docker-compose. Each application you need can be managed and tweaked in isolation. Troubleshooting "works on my machine" problems will cost you more time in the long-run. You can't anticipate all the weird interactions between your programs and the os. Being able to nuke the setup and rebuild from scratch is your most valuable tool. - thin base os (install just enough to run docker-compose) - maintain images for each of your apps you need. - mount the essential volumes of each image to well known location on your hard drive to make manual backups easy. |
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