Posts about docker

May 31, 2024

I'm running almost 30 containers on my home server at this point, and I'm extremely lazy when it comes to updating them. Watchtower is a lightweight set-it-and-forget-it solution to auto-updating containers, and it even has built-in notifications. Here's how to set it up.

November 4, 2022

FileBrowser is a self-hosted file manager for a specified directory in a Linux machine that lets you upload, download, move, copy, create, delete, rename, and edit your files in a nice web interface through your browser. Here's a quick guide to setting it up in Docker.

October 20, 2022

When running a headless home server, you may want to set up a monitoring solution to keep track of your server's performance. Node Exporter will expose your server's metrics, cAdvisor will expose metrics for Docker containers, and Prometheus will scrape and collect those metrics, which is then used as a data source for Grafana dashboards. Here's how to get it all set up in Docker.

October 18, 2022

Though Plex is a very popular media server for self-hosting, some open source enthusiasts prefer to use an alternative since Plex Media Server is not open source. A nice, simpler and admittedly less pretty alternative is Jellyfin. This guide will show you how to run it in Docker container.

October 17, 2022

One of the most popular services to self-host in Plex Media Server, which serves your personal media library with a nice Netflix-like UI. Though you can install and run it bare-metal, the most common and easiest way is in a Docker container. Here's how.

September 29, 2022

I've been running a bunch of services on my home server in docker containers for a few years now. It's quick and easy to set up once you get used to it. Here's a quick and dirty guide to installing Docker and Docker Compose, and getting several containers up and running.