Hi c/selfhosted,
I have another project idea. However, before I start I want to make sure there is interest in the community and a similar project does not exist yet.
I was thinking about a “compose” website that contains the compose files and basic information of the projects listed in the awesome-selfhosted list. Users can search for projects, browse by categories, etc. In my opinion when finding a new project you want to try out it, is a bit cumbersome to find the corresponding compose file to get started.
Let me know if there is any interest in such a project. Also I have no idea how I would name the project, so give me your best suggestions :). Thanks!
You answer my question with a question… But I’ll answer it.
Compose is meant for multi-container applications or development. It’s good for custom applications where you need to manage every service yourself so you mostly see them used for stuff like web stacks.
Single container applications are much easier to run and manage for the end-user and most of the awesome-selfhosted apps are already served as single container images on the docker hub. There is absolutely no need to use compose for any of those because you are not managing every service of the app yourself.
I have a big server with lots of containers running for apps. For example, I have a container for my blog, one for FreshRSS, and even one for Teamspeak. But I only use Compose for one application and that’s my own custom one. That one consists of an nginx container, php container, etc. I don’t need to dive into the different services of FreshRSS for example, but I do need to for my own custom app.