Docker Compose vs SystemD for One-Clicks
I had been struggling for a while over how to best configure VMs for my one-clicks. SystemD is fantastic but simply put, nobody seems to be contributing much SystemD items these days as everything is docker. It’s not like I am late to the docker party, I’m fully bought in. But for a while when running VMs I was just trying to build vanilla VMs which meant SystemD.
I am now off the SystemD train and fully bought into docker for as much as it makes sense. I have now transitioned my one-clicks from just Terraform -> Ansible -> SystemD to Terraform -> Ansble -> Docker Compose.
For an example, this stack took me 3 hours to build with docker-compose,
Where as this stack took me several days with all the debugging…
I think the real key is just getting systemd to play nice with docker-compose. Have yet to figure out best way of doing that.
Starting to really hate VMs…