Dan SkaggsJul 9, 2023

Finally updated my self-hosted #Mastodon server to the latest v4.1.4 this morning. Since I run it in a #Docker Swarm (for now), it took me a little bit to figure out how to run the Rails DB migrations.

I wound up exec’ing into the "web” service in the Docker stack and running the command directly inside the container. That's obviously not something you usually do with ephemeral containers, but in this case it was making changes to the associated databases, so it worked fine.

Show threadZta

@dskaggs Sounds cool! I want to look into Docker Swarm myself, I just need the time. What OS are you using? I can recommend #Lightwhale. As a zero-installation, zero-configuration, and zero-maintenance Docker OS it's extremely easy to use:

https://lightwhale.asklandd.dk/mas

Jul 10, 2023 at 8:46amWeb
Show threadDan SkaggsJul 10, 2023
@zta I have 6 Ubuntu virtual machines functioning as nodes in my Docker Swarm (spread across 2 physical servers running Proxmox). I’m currently in the process of replacing my swarm with an 8-node Kubernetes cluster (3 control plane VMs and 5 worker VMs) as Docker Swarm is essentially dead at this point.
Show threadZtaJul 10, 2023

@dskaggs I think #Lightwhale is be a far better choice than any desktop Linux (branded as "server" or not); after all, that's the very purpose of it.

Is swarm real dead? I got the impression that it's only an older version of it, that was obsolete. I know k8s is the norm now, but it's really a horrible yaml configuration hell...