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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| Git | Popular version control system, primarily for code |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 13 acronyms.
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Same. Never felt the need to do them separately.
@AbsurdityAccelerator All one file. Makes reverse proxy easy and most don’t need any open ports. Probably somewhere around 40. Oh two in their separate files cause I compile them from source.
I run multiple compose files with internal networks. No exposed ports.
So your name resolving them over multiple networks. Seems like a headache. By exposed ports I mean the host only has the reverse proxy with a port mapping. All other conteiners have no port mapping.
You can just refer to them by the name you give it in the services block, it's actually really simple. No port mappings at all.
https://nginxproxymanager.com/advanced-config/#best-practice-use-a-docker-network
Yes splitting them up is much better.
The only reason you should have secondary services there is if main service is using them exclusively.
Having a single compose file for multiple unrelated services sounds like a nightmare to stop, start and debug if one of your containers is acting weird.
Say for example you have something that needs a mysql server and you have no other use for it beyond that container, then it should go in there with the main seevice.
But then you eventually add another service which also needs a mysql backend. Do you add another mysql instance for that specific service? Or you could separate your existing one into its own compose file and just connect the two separate apps to the single instance.
Here's the way I have mine setup. https://github.com/DanTheMinotaur/HomeHost/tree/main/apps
I use an ansible job to deploy and run them.
Having a single compose file for multiple unrelated services sounds like a nightmare to stop, start and debug if one of your containers is acting weird.
You can do "docker compose (servive) start/stop/restart" and so on
i had arr in one stack and media in another.
Now in my kubernetes cluster everything is separated, but arr + torrent is in vpn and automatically uses the vpn-sidecar. And media (jellyfin + jellyseer) is separate.