[kwlug-disc] Docker Host Appliance

[Chris Irwin]

After spending the last few decades happily doing home server work the 
hard way (manually managed servers & VMs), I've finally got tired/lazy 
enough to start looking at simplifying to pre-packaged solutions.

Migrated my NAS server to TrueNAS Scale, and migrated my VM host to 
XCP-NG. Both seem to work well, are easy to manage, and "just work" in 
the background to do what you want: Host Files, or Host VMs.

Now I'm looking at containers. I've done some experimentation with 
podman & docker, and think it would make sense to migrate some of my 
services, away from dedicated (manual) Virtual Machines.

However, *what do I host them on?*

I really don't want to just install docker manually on another 
manually-managed install of Fedora/etc.

TrueNAS Scale has a fairly decent, if somewhat minimal docker host 
built-in, accessible through the web interface. Home Assistant seems to 
have one as well (though catered to their own ecosystem).

Surely there's some simple container-host OS that doesn't require me to 
architect the whole system from scratch, manage my own updates, etc?

Is my search-foo failing, or is everybody really rolling their own 
container hosts?

-- 
Chris Irwin

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