And that's fine. But it is not at all required for self-hosting things.
It's not required, but, once you have a handle on it, you get to save a lot of time and hassle. For example, I just checked my old docs for installing and updating Nextcloud. It's 17 printed pages. My new docs are:
Personally, I run that nightly because, like someone said in another comment, "so what if your homelab is down for a day." For me having a day of downtime wouldn't be the end of the world, so everything's homogenous and auto-updated. I only touch it when I need to update to new major versions.
In my experience I spend less time fixing issues related to containers than I used to maintaining everything by hand.
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It's not required, but, once you have a handle on it, you get to save a lot of time and hassle. For example, I just checked my old docs for installing and updating Nextcloud. It's 17 printed pages. My new docs are:
Personally, I run that nightly because, like someone said in another comment, "so what if your homelab is down for a day." For me having a day of downtime wouldn't be the end of the world, so everything's homogenous and auto-updated. I only touch it when I need to update to new major versions.In my experience I spend less time fixing issues related to containers than I used to maintaining everything by hand.