Buttervolume - A solution to a frustration I've had with selfhosting for years
I recently came across a magical little project called buttervolume, a Docker Volume plugin that manages your Docker (and potentially Podman) Volumes as BTRFS subvolumes. It solves a problem I’ve had with OCI container hosted workloads for years - enabling migration of centralized storage volumes between discrete systems. VM orchestrators handle volume migration better… …or I gues more accurately, they can actually do it. I’ve been hosting services for almost my entire career. I cut my teeth on Linux and web server hosting at a local ISP and hosting provider just out of high school. And yet, I still remember the magic that I experienced when I had my first VMWare vSphere deployment. Not only was it possible to easily host multiple servers on the same system, it was possible to move those virtual servers between hosts. Gone were the days when hardware maintenance was tied to extended down times. Server migration between hosts was a quick and easy process. And it was good. ...