This is one of those things that I've always been too scared to ask so I'm just going to ask it now: Is there a distro designed exclusively for running docker (and perhaps other) containers that also contains a friendly web UI for people who have no idea how docker actually works? I'm familiar with Proxmox, but it doesn't natively support docker.
An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
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Re: An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
#22This is one of those things that I've always been too scared to ask so I'm just going to ask it now: Is there a distro designed exclusively for running docker (and perhaps other) containers that also contains a friendly web UI for people who have no idea how docker actually works? I'm familiar with Proxmox, but it doesn't natively support docker.
Re: An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
#23This is one of those things that I've always been too scared to ask so I'm just going to ask it now: Is there a distro designed exclusively for running docker (and perhaps other) containers that also contains a friendly web UI for people who have no idea how docker actually works? I'm familiar with Proxmox, but it doesn't natively support docker.
Re: An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
#24This is one of those things that I've always been too scared to ask so I'm just going to ask it now: Is there a distro designed exclusively for running docker (and perhaps other) containers that also contains a friendly web UI for people who have no idea how docker actually works? I'm familiar with Proxmox, but it doesn't natively support docker.
RancherOS if you're looking to use something heavily tested but it's got a few weird features like most of the OS also being in containers. If you want something light to play with and get a vanilla docker experience, your best bet is likely Boot2Docker with Portainer.
https://rancher.com/docs/os/v1.x/en/support/
Rancher is working on a new version.
Re: An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
#25You can always have a vanilla Debian or vanilla Arch install and add things on an as-needed basis and build the OS from scratch, minimizing complexity and have them as single-duty OSes.
Yes but those aren’t single purpose OS’s like the ones described here. These typically come with immutability and a vastly reduced attack surface
Re: An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
#26This is one of those things that I've always been too scared to ask so I'm just going to ask it now: Is there a distro designed exclusively for running docker (and perhaps other) containers that also contains a friendly web UI for people who have no idea how docker actually works? I'm familiar with Proxmox, but it doesn't natively support docker.
Re: An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
#27This is one of those things that I've always been too scared to ask so I'm just going to ask it now: Is there a distro designed exclusively for running docker (and perhaps other) containers that also contains a friendly web UI for people who have no idea how docker actually works? I'm familiar with Proxmox, but it doesn't natively support docker.
You could argue that Docker Desktop is basically this.
Re: An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
#28This is one of those things that I've always been too scared to ask so I'm just going to ask it now: Is there a distro designed exclusively for running docker (and perhaps other) containers that also contains a friendly web UI for people who have no idea how docker actually works? I'm familiar with Proxmox, but it doesn't natively support docker.
https://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/cloudmin/virtualiza...
Re: An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
#29You can always have a vanilla Debian or vanilla Arch install and add things on an as-needed basis and build the OS from scratch, minimizing complexity and have them as single-duty OSes.
Yes but those aren’t single purpose OS’s like the ones described here. These typically come with immutability and a vastly reduced attack surface
1. Write a config file
2. Run the command that builds the system
3. Test the system
4. (optional) Run the command that bakes the fresh system generated from the config into an image.
5. Deploy using either an image or NixOS's config based deployment tooling.
Re: An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could argue that Docker Desktop is basically this.
Docker Desktop is essentially an application, doesn't come close to being a OS or distribution.