How do y’all manage all these Docker compose apps?

First I installed Jellyfin natively on Debian, which was nice because everything just worked with the normal package manager and systemd.

Then, Navidrome wasn’t in the repos, but it’s a simple Go binary and provides a systemd unit file, so that was not so bad just downloading a new binary every now and then.

Then… Immich came… and forced me to use Docker compose… :|

Now I’m looking at Frigate… and it also requires Docker compose… :|

Looking through the docs, looks like Jellyfin, Navidrome, Immich, and Frigate all require/support Docker compose…

At this point, I’m wondering if I should switch everything to Docker compose so I can keep everything straight.

But, how do folks manage this mess? Is there an analogue to apt update, apt upgrade, systemctl restart, journalctl for all these Docker compose apps? Or do I have to individually manage each app? I guess I could write a bash script… but… is this what other people do?

  • qqq@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    For loops with find are evil for a lot of reasons, one of which is spaces:

    $ tree
.
├── arent good with find loops
│   ├── a
│   └── innerdira
│       └── docker-compose.yml
└── dirs with spaces
    ├── b
    └── innerdirb
        └── docker-compose.yml

3 directories, 2 files
$ for y in $(find .); do echo $y; done
.
./are
t good with fi
d loops
./are
t good with fi
d loops/i

erdira
./are
t good with fi
d loops/i

erdira/docker-compose.yml
./are
t good with fi
d loops/a
./dirs with spaces
./dirs with spaces/i

erdirb
./dirs with spaces/i

erdirb/docker-compose.yml
./dirs with spaces/b

    You can kinda fix that with IFS (this breaks if newlines are in the filename which would probably only happen in a malicious context):

    $ OIFS=$IFS
$ IFS=$'\n'
$ for y in $(find .); do echo "$y"; done
.
./arent good with find loops
./arent good with find loops/innerdira
./arent good with find loops/innerdira/docker-compose.yml
./arent good with find loops/a
./dirs with spaces
./dirs with spaces/innerdirb
./dirs with spaces/innerdirb/docker-compose.yml
./dirs with spaces/b
$ IFS=$OIFS

    But you can also use something like:

    find . -name 'docker-compose.yml' -printf '%h\0' | while read -r -d $'\0' dir; do
      ....
done

    or in your case this could all be done from find alone:

    find . -name 'docker-compose.yml' -execdir ...

    -execdir in this case is basically replacing your cd $(dirname $y), which is also brittle when it comes to spaces and should be quoted: cd "$(dirname "$y")".