Best Docker Containers in 2024

Docker containers provide an easy way to run your self-hosted applications in a home lab environment. With Docker and Docker Compose, you can easily spin up multiple applications and stacks of apps to service your self-hosted needed. We look at the top Docker containers in 2024!
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Introduction - 0:00
1. Kasm Workspaces - 0:52
2. Plex - 1:55
3. Jellyfin - 2:41
4. Emby - 3:16
5. Nextcloud - 3:49
6. Pi-Hole - 4:31
7. Home Assistant - 5:37
8. Bitwarden - 6:17
9. Ghost - 6:57
10. Gitea - 7:28
11. Dashy - 8:04
12. Uptime Kuma - 8:34
13. Mailrise - 9:09
14. Adguard Home - 9:54
15. FreshRSS - 10:33
Wrapping up - 11:15

[@romayojr]

there are few that i still haven't tried from your list. thanks for curating this docker container list!

[@cbaxtermusic]

I recently containerized my home lab with Kubernebtes, I went with microk8s running HA and then I templated out my services with helm charts and used terraform to configure things how I like it, and I use ArgoCd for deploying my helm charts. My previous setup was ESXI hypervisor based with VMS. I do use proxmox to create my k8s nodes but now I'm fully containerized

[@rzak1920]

I’d add Immich to the list, amazing photo app.

[@AlexanderWeurding]

Nice work! Thanks for sharing!

[@kristof9497]

Thank you.

[@NicolasMichel_CCIE_29410]

How is your voice so perfect with all the background noise you must have in your room ? Legit question !

[@MakeDataUseful]

I'm going to guess a dynamic mic over a condenser mic potentially

[@SataPataKiouta]

he gargles 2 yolks before each video

[@marcoslanes]

Kasm is really awesome! In "media stream" apps, im trully impress with Jellyfin, im use a cople of months and dont disapointed. Nice review Brandon! Thanks as usual!

[@ThibaultJochem]

Jellyfin is a fork of emby when they changed their licence and went closed source... A bit funny to showcase both of them (3 media serving competitors with plex).

[@est89]

I am new to docker, I did not understand the benefit of using (by example) plex as docker container and not to install directly in the home server thanks for your advice.

[@sir.g.o]

Lol at Gittea pronunciation. GIT + Tea. Sounds like giddy

[@louchitchat]

nice list of apps, I. will try some of them

[@VirtualizationHowto]

@louchitchat awesome! Let me know which ones you like!

[@emanuelpersson3168]

My IT dream right now is to get a K3s or Rancher setup running and mailrise is among the first i want to get up and running!

[@wenlihuang4295]

Finally someone mentions mailrise!

[@VirtualizationHowto]

I love it! Actually I covered this in detail a while back on how I transitioned to mailrise for notifications: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZuacmdsg9p0eaM

[@yerunski]

I've been using it for awhile now too, love it. Although I'm running it on a separate Ubuntu VM. Might save myself some resources and move it over to my Docker VM 😎

[@dibu28]

Deockge for spining up Docker compose containers

[@ewenchan1239]

My open-webui Docker container failed to start properly via a LXC container. (Needed to try and run it through a LXC container as it is sharing a single RTX A2000 between at least 4 other LXC containers.) Plus, trying to get 100 Gbps Infiniband to play nicely with LXC containers and Docker containers has been a colossal pain. (SR-IOV had been enabled, but I haven't found a good/clean way to pass the SR-IOV VFs from the host to a LXC container, and then onto a Docker container.)

[@mrpops2ko]

haha im in the same boat, theres pipework you can look into for VFs into containers but i need to spend more time getting it going, its a topic i need to revisit too

[@ewenchan1239]

​@@mrpops2ko Thank you. I appreciate that. I'll have to take a look at it. My Mellanox ConnectX-4 cards, thankfully, were dual VPI ports, 100 Gbps, meaning that I did experiment with setting one of the two ports as using LINK_TYPE=2 (ETH) rather than LINK_TYPE=1 (IB), so I just connected my two Ryzen 5950X nodes up together with a point-to-point network. The host was able to do a total of 8 parallel streams, which summed up to 96.9 Gbps transfers out of a possible 100 Gbps, but within the CT, it can only barely muster 23.0 Gbps (also with 8 parallel streams) via a Linux Network Bridge (which apparently, you can only create for ethernet networks). So there's definitely something going on there. I don't know enough about it to be able to dig deeper into the root cause analysis, but that is what got me looking at potentially deploying or trying to deploy Canonical's LXD, because there is supposed to be an option to pass SRIOV network interfaces to the containers. *shrug* I'll have to see on that one.

[@Fahdalrabeayah]

Make a video of it Please

[@GustavoMsTrashCan]

Personally I prefer nextdns over pihole and adguard home. It may be on the cloud (at least the most of it), but it has plenty of features that makes it up compared to its competitors.

[@TitoLukason]

i prefer Pihole in LXC, dunno why pihole on docker just doesn't catch me, seems like have more control, specially with unbind...

[@devmely]

Agree and I do the same

[@yann5847]

No reverse proxy ?

[@simonescuderi5977]

If you like manga or comics there's Komga too.

[@uae7001]

In your opinion, which one is better for a superior blocking experience: Pi-hole or AdGuard Home?

[@TitoLukason]

Pihole, been using it for years now, set it and forget it

[@BeamDeam]

Both are pretty much the same. Only the UI is different.

[@TitoLukason]

@@BeamDeam dunt be ridiculous, they different piece of software

[@BeamDeam]

@@TitoLukason didn't say they are the same software. They both work technically the same (DNS Blocking) and support the same block lists. So if you use the same block lists you won't notice a difference in the ad blocking experience. As I already said the UI and the configuration is different.

[@TitoLukason]

For me Pi-Hole is better, end of story... Adguard is a company, company will always benefit of something...and ph is done by bunch of folkes, all that bonkers from adguard website is just crap, I mean that comparison of features adguard vs ph, it's just company crap...anyway, you use whatever crap u like, I stick with pihole, anyway got two instances anyway virtualized, gravity synced...third instance is on thinclient just in case proxmox dies..

[@CheesyCrotch]

thank you

[@ScottBaker_]

From the FAQ for Gitea Gitea is pronounced /ɡɪ’ti:/ as in "gi-tea" with a hard g.

[@crosenblum]

Decent video, but most of these docker containers, are mentioned very often in the subreddit, /r/selfhosted. I was hoping for some more unique or different docker containers.

[@chromerims]

Thank you for being here in the midst of loss. Even though you don't have to be.

[@VirtualizationHowto]

@chromerims thank you for that....I definitely didn't feel like putting out a video this week, but I know my dad would have wanted me to be strong and keep on going. So, this is for him. Thank you for your kind comment, much appreciated.

[@chromerims]

@@VirtualizationHowto You are.

[@WalterBoring]

Use vaultwarden not bitwarden

[@kremicfein]

I believe you actually meant "Best Docker IMAGES ..." with which we can build containers

[@GuruGulabKhatri973]

That's when newbies get co fused

[@munroegarrett]

It's pronounced GITEE. The logo is a cup of tea.

[@darthkielbasa]

Wrong

[@munroegarrett]

The website says "Gitea: Git with a cup of tea" I recommend English lessons if the pronunciation is unclear to you.

[@VirtualizationHowto]

Ah yes! I should have realized....i saw a couple of creators pronounce it both ways so was just unsure. Thanks for this though!

[@KR1ML0N]

​@darthkielbasa really? Wonder why they have a logo of tea then.

[@regis9596]

@@darthkielbasa are you that dumb

[@dibu28]

Deockge for spining up Docker compose containers