Most of the threads I’ve found on other sites (both Reddit and the Synology forums) have basically said “go with Docker”. But what do you actually gain from this?

People suggest it’s more up-to-date, and maybe for some packages that’s true? But for Nextcloud specifically it looks pretty good. 32.0.3 came out 1 day ago and isn’t yet supported, but the version immediately preceding that, from 3 weeks ago, is.

I’ve never done Nextcloud before, but I would assume installing it via the Package Center would be way easier to install and to keep up-to-date than Docker. So what’s the reason everyone recommends Docker? Is it easier to extend?

  • non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Sorry, that was presumptuous of me. ‘TCP stack’ just means each container can have its own IP and services. Each docker, and in fact each Linux host can have as many interfaces as you like.

    I imagine you would get a conflict when you try to go to 192.168.1.2:8000 or even localhost:8000.

    You’re free to run a service on port 8000 on one IP and still run the same port 8000 on another ip on the same subnet. However, two services can’t listen on the port at the same ip address.

    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 days ago

      The only way I know of giving one computer multiple IP addresses is proxmox but can you do that with docker also?

      • non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Yes. Proxmox isn’t doing anything magic another Linux machine (or windows for that matter ) can’t do. A router, for instance, is a good example of this.