Sep 18, 2026, 2:23 PM@MastodonEngineering I'm curious: Why do people not use docker? I have never had an update break because of a dependency. Am I missing something?
- Sep 18, 2026, 2:23 PM
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Sep 18, 2026, 4:23 PMIts nice to have some flexibility and ability to customize a few things, for some admins like me having an important system with lots od software components inside Docker feels like having a blackbox.
Why should I have a container with nginx and thousands of libraries that may have a security vulnerability that cannot be upgraded until a new version of the container is released? I rather rely on Debian for security upgrades for critical components.
Maybe I'm being superstitious or paranoid, maybe I'm becoming the old man yelling at containers.
- Sep 19, 2026, 8:49 PM
@donelias @MastodonEngineering I understand the blackbox somehow but the mastodon software is also mostly a blackbox. The container just bundles everything. For nginx I run that actually on the host.