I’m a retired Unix admin. It was my job from the early '90s until the mid '10s. I’ve kept somewhat current ever since by running various machines at home. So far I’ve managed to avoid using Docker at home even though I have a decent understanding of how it works - I stopped being a sysadmin in the mid '10s, I still worked for a technology company and did plenty of “interesting” reading and training.
It seems that more and more stuff that I want to run at home is being delivered as Docker-first and I have to really go out of my way to find a non-Docker install.
I’m thinking it’s no longer a fad and I should invest some time getting comfortable with it?
Welcome to Docker! It’s fucking awesome! One thing to remember is:
PLEASE setup root-less Docker. It’s safer, easier [no sudo all the fking time.], and literally zero downsides other than the initial configuration – but the Docker docs are amazing and they have every distro on there. It’s only a few more steps and you can sleep secure in the fact that even in the WORST case scenario [compromised to root], they still only have a container running in userspace.