docker VS self-hosted

Compare docker vs self-hosted and see what are their differences.

docker

Production...ish docker-compose image for wger (by wger-project)

self-hosted

Sentry, feature-complete and packaged up for low-volume deployments and proofs-of-concept (by getsentry)
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docker

Posts with mentions or reviews of docker. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-22.

self-hosted

Posts with mentions or reviews of self-hosted. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-10-13.
  • Huly – Open-Source All-in-One Project Management Platform
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Oct 2024
    The most complex system that I've seen that you could self host is the Sentry APM solution, have a look at how many services there are: https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted/blob/master/docker-...

    That's the main reason why I've gone why Apache Skywalking instead, even if it's a bit jank and has fewer features.

    It's kind of unfortunate, either you just have an RDBMS and use it for everything (key-value/document storage, caches, queues, search etc.), or you fan out and have Valkey, RabbitMQ and so on, increasing the complexity.

  • OpenTelemetry Tracing in < 200 lines of code
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Sep 2024
    > I maintain that any platform that isn’t using some sort of tracing system is practically negligent in their engineering duty.

    For some, it's difficult because many of the self-hostable out there are rather complex and have high requirements, like https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted/blob/master/docker-...

    Personally I found Apache Skywalking to be something that you can setup without too many issues https://skywalking.apache.org/ but it's not exactly ideal either.

    I wonder what other good options are out there, something that you can have up and running on a 5$ VPS within an hour or two, to not cause friction.

    Of course, when SaaS is an option, many will just go for that.

  • GitButler is now Fair Source
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Aug 2024
    Oof, sorry to hear it. File a ticket if you have specific things come up:

    https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted/issues/new

  • Ask HN: Founders who offer free/OS and paid SaaS, how do you manage your code?
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 May 2024
    etc.

    We have a Docker Compose wrapper in a separate repo:

    https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted

    We have a private repo called getsentry/getsentry that is another Django app that imports the public one and uses Django signals (iirc) to meter usage for billing. That is what we deploy to SaaS. All product features are implemented in the public repos.

    3) How about employee access?

    Employee access is managed through UI, I honestly don't know whether it lives in getsentry/sentry (public) or getsentry/getsentry (private). Probably the latter?

    2) How do you handle updates to your product?

    Employees work in public on GitHub. We ship more or less continuously to SaaS. It's possible to deploy approximately continuously on self-hosted as well, though we also bless monthly snapshots for a more relaxed cadence. Does that answer this question?

  • Pydantic Logfire
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Apr 2024
    I was responding to the One of the Sentry inconvenience is self-hosting: it relies on so many services it can be very complicated to maintain part, and also reminding readers that if they, too, hate companies that rug-pull their open source licenses, there is a band-aid for both parts

    Compare https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted/blob/9.1.2/docker-c... with https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted/blob/24.4.2/docker-... for what life used to be like for running Sentry on-prem. It was awesome

    It would take a ton of work to dig up the actual memory and CPU requirements of each one, but rest assured they're not zero, so every one of those services eats ram and requires TLC when, not if, they shit themselves. So, more parts == more headaches with all other things being equal

    Then, I deeply appreciate that there are a whole spectrum of reactions to the various licensing schemes in use nowadays, and a bunch of folks don't care. I care, though, because I have gotten immense value from open source projects, and have contributed changes back to quite a few. It has been my life experience that any of those "source available" licenses usually are very hostile toward making local builds and if I can't build it to match how prod goes, then I can't test my fixes in my environment and then I can't contribute the PR with any faith

  • Sentry new TOS to use data to train AI with no opt-out
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2024
    This is the point where I will point out that you can self-host Sentry free of charge :) https://develop.sentry.dev/self-hosted/
  • Low cost self-hosted bug reporting?
    1 project | /r/laravel | 8 Dec 2023
    Sentry can be self hosted: https://develop.sentry.dev/self-hosted/
  • FSL: A License for the Bazaar, Not the Cathedral
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Nov 2023
    The people we're concerned about are not the hundreds of thousands of Sentry users, including those that self-host.

    We're concerned about people who have taken the software for the purposes of competing directly against us, that hinders our ability to monetize the work. Monetizing the work helps us continue improving the software and distribute it for free use, benefitting those aforementioned real users (e.g. https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted).

  • Show HN: A open-source financial accounting alternative to QuickBooks
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Sep 2023
    > I mean no slander or disrespect to anyone involved, but there was a DataDog alternative posted sometime in the last few weeks that had a docker-compose with like 15 containers in it.

    Reminds me of Sentry: https://develop.sentry.dev/self-hosted/

    This is their example docker-compose for self-hosting: https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted/blob/master/docker-...

    It has:

      - exim4 (smtp)
  • OpenTelemetry in 2023
    36 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Aug 2023
    > What should people use?

    I recall Apache Skywalking being pretty good, especially for smaller/medium scale projects: https://skywalking.apache.org/

    The architecture is simple, the performance is adequate, it doesn't make you spend days configuring it and it even supports various different data stores: https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/main/v9.0.0/en/setup/back...

    The problems with it are that it isn't super popular (although has agents for most popular stacks), the docs could be slightly better and I recall them also working on a new UI so there is a little bit of churn: https://skywalking.apache.org/downloads/

    Still better versus some of the other options when you need something that just works instead of spending a lot of time configuring something (even when that something might be superior in regards to the features): https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted/blob/master/docker-...

    Sentry is just the first thing that comes to mind (OpenTelemetry also isn't simpler due to how much it tries to do), but compare its complexity to Skywalking: https://github.com/apache/skywalking/blob/master/docker/dock...

    I wish there was more self-hosted software like that out there, enough to address certain concerns in a simple way on day 1 and leave branching out to more complex options like OpenTelemetry once you have a separate team for that and the cash is rolling in.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing docker and self-hosted you can also consider the following projects:

self-hosted - Instructions and resources to deploy Revolt using Docker.

Sentry - Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring

nextcloud_docker - Docker setup to run Nextcloud

zammad-docker-compose - Zammad Docker images for docker-compose & Kubernetes

Django-bash - Bash script for setting up Django which lives at https://bit.ly/3zctaUI

wael - A simple self-hosted weight and exercise log

RegExr - RegExr is a HTML/JS based tool for creating, testing, and learning about Regular Expressions.

DockSTARTer - DockSTARTer helps you get started with running apps in Docker.

ML-Workspace - πŸ›  All-in-one web-based IDE specialized for machine learning and data science.

docker-django-example - A production ready example Django app that's using Docker and Docker Compose.

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