Ideally, there’d be a simple RPM installer compatible with Alma 9 that I can point to a samba share that holds all the photos, kind of like what I do with Jellyfin. Also nice if it uses an otherwise unused port or I can easily set what port it uses.

My googling is finding a bunch of docker stuff, which always seems needlessly complicated to me vs an RPM… I’m also using a low powered x86 tiny computer to front JellyFin and would like to host this on the same computer vs needing another server.

Any ideas?

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    Docker (better use Podman!) Is, I am afraid, hard to avoid nowadays. I fully agree with you that bare-metal deployment should always be an option.

    Its one of my biggest issues with immich/photoprism/librephotos but there is no way around that.

    Immich is the only container I have on my system… A necessary evil (joking).

    I know containers now, but still don’t like them too much. I am old I am afraid.

    But you shouldn’t be FORCED to use containers, that’s my point.

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      No one is forcing you to use containers for Immich. It’s simply the most robust way to support it for the team.

      You can just take a look at the dockerfiles and follow those steps on bare metal.

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        No, I am forced to use containers because… There are no instructions for bare-metal installation and they also do not provide any instruction on how to build from sources (and I tried…)

        Also, there are no binary releases only docker-compose.

        All in all, immich cannot be deployed but with containers.

        No choice: not good.

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          Like I said, if you follow the dockerfiles you will end up with a similar result on bare metal.

          It’s your own decision if you want to deviate from what the developers want to support.

          A project doesn’t need to produce binary releases.

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            It is true that a project doesn’t need to release binaries. But either those or the instructions on how to build from sources I think are somewhat expected.

            Said so, I am hosting immich on docker because, specially on such fast evolving and kind of “beta” software its by far the fastest way.

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          A Dockerfile itself is the instruction set. There is a certain minimum requirement expected from a server admin that differs from end-user requirements.

          The ease of docker obfuscates that quite a bit but if you want to go full bare metal (or full AWS or GCS, etc etc) then you need to manage the full admin part as well - including custom deployments.

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            8 months ago

            Indeed I am a quite proficient sysadmin for my home server, while not a professional one.

            I didn’t consider a docker file as instructions for bare metal install, thanks for the suggestion. I am currently using podman with immich because its release cycles are too fast for me to catch up otherwise.

            I am thinking to experiment with something different from immich because, while its a great tool, it’s “just” (no pun intended) a backup solution for mobile devices and I need something more than that.

            I was considering https://damselfly.info/ which looks more like the workflow I am looking to implement.