Right now I'm searching for the optimal solution to host containers in a small but cool way. Thinking about just using a plain Linux host, configured via ansible and compose.
Used Portainer so far, but that's a bit bloated for my simple use (one host, no-HA, lab env). Kubernetes is way too complex as well.
Warewulf sounds fun to try :D all of my profiles would probably only have one node. Does Warewulf make a fraction of sense when having a tiny, quasi-local environment?
EDIT: ah, nevermind. stateless and temporary makes no sense for my usecase, as my containers will run 24/7 with rare changes. But I will think about Warewulf if I ever dive into large-scale containerization :)
If you want small and cool, Wasmtime should be mentioned. It’s a WebAssembly runtime to it can only run WebAssembly programs, which narrows the set of programs that can be executed. However, if you can get your program in WebAssembly then Wasmtime is very cool. Startup time is a few ms versus hundreds of ms for Docker. Memory usage is also orders of magnitude less. And security guarantees are similar.
If you really want a lightweight experience, go with alpine and then run all the daemon processes using supervisor [1] and for HA, you can use keepalived which uses VRRP for HA
> Thinking about just using a plain Linux host, configured via ansible and compose.
That's what I've been using since 2019 (plus caddy as reverse proxy for various web services), and in general I've been happy. Upgrading to docker-conpose-v2 caused me some headaches recently though, and I'll soon have to upgrade the underlying Ubuntu server, which I am dreading.
Used Portainer so far, but that's a bit bloated for my simple use (one host, no-HA, lab env). Kubernetes is way too complex as well.
Warewulf sounds fun to try :D all of my profiles would probably only have one node. Does Warewulf make a fraction of sense when having a tiny, quasi-local environment?
EDIT: ah, nevermind. stateless and temporary makes no sense for my usecase, as my containers will run 24/7 with rare changes. But I will think about Warewulf if I ever dive into large-scale containerization :)