I’m trying to get back into self hosting. I had previously used Unraid and it worked well to run VMs where needed and Docker containers whenever possible. This biggest benefit is that there is an easy way to give each container it’s own IP so you don’t have to worry about port conflicts. Nobody else does this for Docker as far as I can tell and after trying multiple “guides”, none of them work unless you’re using some ancient and very specific hardware and software situation. I give up. I’m going back to Unraid that just works. No more Docker compose errors because it’s Ubuntu host is using some port requiring me to disable key features.

  • karlthemailmanEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Not saying I don’t believe you, but do you have any examples where changing the external port causes an issue? I change the port on almost every single docker container from what the default is.

    Same here. I can’t think of an instance when this hasn’t worked. Perhaps if you have multiple applications that depend on each other? But you can just put those in the same compose file.