GreggThelen
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I'm in the process of working through moving from an IIS webserver hosted on Windows to websites published via Docker to a Linux box.
I'm a total noob.
To that end I bought a cheap box, installed Linux (Debian 12), added it to my network and I'm now working through "Linux for Beginners" by Lukas Worley.
I'll have finished that book by the New Year.
Before I get to my question, I've been avoiding Linux for 20 years - and I now kind of regret that, because honestly, the little bit of exposure I've had - it is actually much simpler than anything I've worked with by Microsoft. I don't mean "simpler" as an insult, what I mean is I've yet to waste an hour clicking through buried menus, opening all these dialogs, only to find a greyed-out checkbox that shows in the UI, but then cannot be modified through the UI. I don't miss the computer taking 5 minutes to boot, or the delays of opening something in Windows while tons of telemetry is going on in the background. I'm sick to death of popups, stuff opening because I fat fingered a key, 300 "apps" I'll never use eating up drive space, and anything to do with AI.
I digress.
So, I have a Debian 12 box set up with GitLab installed (and it works, hurray!) - and I now have a separate box that I intended to use as my webserver.
I'm not at all sure the learning route (what software to learn) to get the webserver to a state where I can publish docker containers to it.
I don't know a thing about docker, and such - so I guess learn about Apach2 webserver first then move onto ????
Recommendations appreciated.
I'm a total noob.
To that end I bought a cheap box, installed Linux (Debian 12), added it to my network and I'm now working through "Linux for Beginners" by Lukas Worley.
I'll have finished that book by the New Year.
Before I get to my question, I've been avoiding Linux for 20 years - and I now kind of regret that, because honestly, the little bit of exposure I've had - it is actually much simpler than anything I've worked with by Microsoft. I don't mean "simpler" as an insult, what I mean is I've yet to waste an hour clicking through buried menus, opening all these dialogs, only to find a greyed-out checkbox that shows in the UI, but then cannot be modified through the UI. I don't miss the computer taking 5 minutes to boot, or the delays of opening something in Windows while tons of telemetry is going on in the background. I'm sick to death of popups, stuff opening because I fat fingered a key, 300 "apps" I'll never use eating up drive space, and anything to do with AI.
I digress.
So, I have a Debian 12 box set up with GitLab installed (and it works, hurray!) - and I now have a separate box that I intended to use as my webserver.
I'm not at all sure the learning route (what software to learn) to get the webserver to a state where I can publish docker containers to it.
I don't know a thing about docker, and such - so I guess learn about Apach2 webserver first then move onto ????
Recommendations appreciated.
