Tag: docker

Karakeep: Self-Hosted Bookmarks With AI Tagging

Karakeep (formerly Hoarder) is a self-hosted Pocket alternative with AI auto-tagging, full-text search, and Docker Compose deploy in under 10 minutes.

Rootless Docker: Tips, Gotchas & Fixes

Rootless Docker tuning deep-dive: network drivers, env vars, port drivers, cgroup delegation, and real troubleshooting, anchored to Docker Engine 29.x.

Dead Container Took Down Prod

A real postmortem: how a forgotten survey-tool container, an uncapped Docker log driver, and rootless networking combined to kill prod for a Monday morning.

Self-Host a Local AI Coding Workhorse

Self-host Gemma 4 or Qwen3-Coder via Ollama or llama.cpp in Docker, then let Claude delegate the grunt work to it. Free tokens, zero code leakage.

Home Assistant Add-Ons vs Docker Containers

HAOS Add-Ons vs bare Docker Compose for Mosquitto, ESPHome, Frigate, when the Supervisor magic is worth it and when it just gets in your way.

Rancher vs Podman vs Docker Desktop

Rancher Desktop, Podman Desktop, and Docker Desktop go head-to-head on cost, k8s, resource use, and real-world friction for local dev.

Garden vs Tilt vs Skaffold

Three inner-loop dev tools for Kubernetes, Garden, Tilt, and Skaffold. Which one actually makes K8s development bearable? Honest comparison, no fluff.

Lima vs Multipass

VM-backed Linux dev environments on macOS/Linux, Lima vs Multipass compared on speed, container support, and resource use.

Compose Watch: Faster Dev Loops

Docker Compose Watch syncs your code into running containers without rebuilds. Here's how to set it up and why your dev loop is about to get a lot less painful.

tini vs dumb-init vs --init

PID 1 zombie reaping in containers, tini, dumb-init, and docker --init compared; when each one fixes your signal handling and stops your 10s shutdown tax.

Container Escape: How to Stop It

Containers are not VMs. Here are the real escape vectors, privileged mode, mounted sockets, kernel CVEs, and the runtime hardening that actually helps.

ko vs Jib vs Buildpacks

Build container images without writing a single Dockerfile, ko for Go, Jib for Java, Paketo Buildpacks for everything else. Real benchmarks, real tradeoffs.