tl;dr- my favorite container is the firefox browser. My work browser is seriously locked down, so I just go to my Homer page and click firefox and a firefox instance opens inside my edgelord browser with all my bookmarks and extensions. It's a simple thing, but easily the service I use more than any other.(compose pasted at bottom)

Anyway, I started with docker desktop on winblows 11. I learned the ropes and then when docker desktop inshittified in an update, I switched to Rancher. All my services are picked up on their local ports by nginx-proxy-manager and then sent through a cloudflared tunnel to the domain I bought, with a customized homer page and strict access controls. Because the VM on windows was running my poor little refurbished Thinkstation too hard, I recently deleted winblows (such a good feeling) and moved over to a headless Debian server, which I run through SSH on my refurbished thinkcenter. 97% usage down to 13% (seriously). I'm only in this computer game for about $500 total and I have more than a few TBs of storage (used SAS drives were really cheap a little while ago and the hardware/learning curve is worth it). If you don't game, old stuff works just fine for pennies on the dollar (I have unplugged backups of all my really important stuff).

I use AI for the CLI stuff I down have memorized. Linux is still frustrating- File ownership is foreign and super irritating to me, being my most recent source of frustration. My Filebrowser instance broke itself and I haven't gotten it back, and of the 30 times I've tried to get Nextcloud to work, I've been successful zero times.

Anyway, it has been hours of my life arguably wasted but it has been fun and educational, and I get to give the finger to big data for the most part. I don't like the cloudflared thing, but free is hard to beat and unless I start torrenting again, I really don't need or want to pay for a VPS. I search this forum and others for new containers to spin up. I marvel at other folks' setups and the money they have spent. I'm a rusty and recycled guy, not a new and shiny guy, but man some of this custom-built, laser-cut, 3d printed stuff is cool.

I just wanted to share my experience and hopefully encourage anyone who is just starting or is on the fence.

firefox: image: jlesage/firefox container_name: firefox ports: - "5808:5800" environment: - TZ=America/Chicago - PUID=1000 - PGID=1000 #- VNC_PASSWORD=${VNC_PASSWORD} - DARK_MODE=1 - WEB_AUDIO=1 - WEB_FILE_MANAGER=1 - WEB_FILE_MANAGER_ALLOWED_PATHS=ALL - WEB_HOST_CLIPBOARD_SYNC=1 volumes: - ./firefox/config:/config:rw - /SWAP:/downloads shm_size: "2gb" restart: unless-stopped networks: - web

I have 27 containers running with rancher on windows. Long story short, I'm tired of the resource use and stress on my machine by running the VM. My data folders are split up by duty (admin, utility, media, virtualization) each duty has its own folder, containing the services' folder with data/config directories and one compose.yaml file for those services. All the compose files are connected to a master compose file in the parent directory that starts all of them. My compose files have references to the media hdds that are defined with an .env file next to the master compose.

I need to clone my docker setup to a Debian install I've been working on on its own ssd. I've been screwing with Linux unsuccessfully for almost 20 years, so my cli is weak. I'm looking for a tool that will clone my volumes and containers.

What do you use?