Trying to Build a Mastodon Instance
I tried to make a test instance of Mastodon today and I learned a lot from the process.
One of the things I learned today is that Docker makes hard things easy and easy things really hard. Adding Docker to the stack of things I need to learn will complicate things too much IMHO, so I'm gonna just install Mastodon without Docker and see how that goes, next time.
Tonight tho, it's SPLAT TIME :D
Trying to Build a Mastodon Instance
@mawr (Wow, fave in 5 seconds, that's gotta be a record...)
@emanate I fave like I think
wait what
Trying to Build a Mastodon Instance
@mawr tell me what resources ur usin! i want to host. a server at ooziest.faith
@cardboardfriend scaleway!! Lowest priced hosting provider in Europe that I could find. ^^
Trying to Build a Mastodon Instance
@mawr FYI, I've tried out Proxmox VE as a virtualization solution lately at work, and I really like it. Debian 9 based, and supports ZFS for storage and CEPH for clustering!
Trying to Build a Mastodon Instance
@zetasyanthis Why do my virtualized machines now need virtualized code environments in them D:
Trying to Build a Mastodon Instance
@mawr I don't know. D: I think the idea is that you use Docker instead of VMs because transferring VMs takes a while. (And containers are a lot lighter weight.)
Trying to Build a Mastodon Instance
BECAUSE CONTAINERS!!!
Of course my work place is filled with PUPPETIZE THIS AND THAT AND LOOK AT ALL THE HORRIBLE PLACES WE ARE STUFFING OUR HANDS AND ATTACHING STRINGS TO!
Weee back up this whole Puppet 2.7 to 5.0 conversion.. thing.
Trying to Build a Mastodon Instance
@mawr Splat all the Tim 2s!