Docker would be a useful thing to get into once you figure out the basics of linux. To elaborate on why you'd want to try out docker, here is my setup. I have a NAS for storage, some (linux)...
Docker would be a useful thing to get into once you figure out the basics of linux. To elaborate on why you'd want to try out docker, here is my setup.
I have a NAS for storage, some (linux) docker servers, and a series of services running using docker. Portainer is used to manage containers.
The docker services (using templates from linuxserver.io, but others work once you get used to docker). This way configuration and important files are all stored centrally on the NAS (through NFS), so there is only one storage you need to back up.
These can all be on one machine, or split into multiple docker servers. If you want to host something lightweight like Heimdall (a dashboard webpage) you can put it on a low power PC or the NAS, but if you find something like Plex or Obico requires more power, you can run docker on your main PC (even Windows) and still connect it's storage to your NAS.
Doing this in docker keeps the running environments separate, so if something breaks or behaves badly, it's easy to reset or replace it and keep a clean base install. During the learning of linux you can create a lot of mess while trying things out, so being able to do a clean reset and still have remaining services running is a nice bonus.
Docker would be a useful thing to get into once you figure out the basics of linux. To elaborate on why you'd want to try out docker, here is my setup.
I have a NAS for storage, some (linux) docker servers, and a series of services running using docker. Portainer is used to manage containers.
The docker services (using templates from linuxserver.io, but others work once you get used to docker). This way configuration and important files are all stored centrally on the NAS (through NFS), so there is only one storage you need to back up.
These can all be on one machine, or split into multiple docker servers. If you want to host something lightweight like Heimdall (a dashboard webpage) you can put it on a low power PC or the NAS, but if you find something like Plex or Obico requires more power, you can run docker on your main PC (even Windows) and still connect it's storage to your NAS.
Doing this in docker keeps the running environments separate, so if something breaks or behaves badly, it's easy to reset or replace it and keep a clean base install. During the learning of linux you can create a lot of mess while trying things out, so being able to do a clean reset and still have remaining services running is a nice bonus.