I’ve come across Red Hat allot lately and am wondering if I need to get studying. I’m an avid Ubuntu server user but don’t want to get stuck only knowing one distro. What is the way to go if i want to know as much as I can for use in real world situations.

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    1 year ago

    I recently finished reading a good docker book. They explained why alpine is so great to use: its like 16 MBs or something. I deployed a Minecraft server with it just for fun. Pretty cool. Shrunk the image a good 15 percent from a debian version I believe. Check it out if you want. Have a good one.

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      1 year ago

      Thanks, I’ll check it out! I honestly run into disk space issues with Ubuntu Server a lot. I’ll give it a partition and it will fill up with this opaque “ubuntu–vg-ubuntu–lv” volume pretty quickly.

      Here’s a df -h on it right now:

      /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv 38G 17G 20G 47% /

      Need to manually prune Docker and run other admin tasks to keep it under control.

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        1 year ago

        This sounds like an automation opportunity. If docker starts to fill up, I assume you pull or build a lot of images. If the reason is rooted in software development, you might wanna look at ci/cd. If not, I suggest going through your process and maybe changing the routine. Like run with a -rm command. Thats what I do when I test stuff. The container gets removed immediately after stopping. There are many neat tricks. Hit me up if you need more info.

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        1 year ago

        Thanks. „At home docker needs“ read to me like a container os instead of the host. Thanks for clearing it up.