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What's the advantages/disadvantages to hosting Nextcloud with Docker vs the Package Center on a Synology? (europe.pub)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Most of the threads I've found on other sites (both Reddit and the Synology forums) have basically said "go with Docker". But what do you actually gain from this?

People suggest it's more up-to-date, and maybe for some packages that's true? But for Nextcloud specifically it looks pretty good. 32.0.3 came out 1 day ago and isn't yet supported, but the version immediately preceding that, from 3 weeks ago, is.

I've never done Nextcloud before, but I would assume installing it via the Package Center would be way easier to install and to keep up-to-date than Docker. So what's the reason everyone recommends Docker? Is it easier to extend?

Screenshot of Nextcloud in the Synology Package Center
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[–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

As it's a VM you should be fine as long as there's enough resources for it to run its own docker instance. You just have to give it permission to control docker in the VM. And of course the VM must have docker.

Edit: it's also possible to give it power over a remote docker instance as well. So you could do docker on the host PC and Nextcloud can manage it from the VM.

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