oh, gotcha. Thanks, and good point. I was thinking of using bind mounts instead of volumes so I can access them easier. That should make backing them up to the NAS easier as well.

It does help thanks. And part of this set of questions was just me exploring stuff thoughts and looking to learn… so I have a follow up question or two.

You mention docker volumes make a lot of sense with multiple nodes. How does that work out? We use pv’s and such with k8s at work, and the ones we use can only be mounted on one node at a time. From what others have said, allowing many write from multiple nodes has a lot of complications. Do docker volumes handle writing from multiple nodes?

And… “streaming video isn’t super latency sensitive”. I’m super new to streaming video. I would have expected it to be sensitive to latency. I mean you expect the video to keep playing and not stop. Whereas most of the things I work with (api’s and what not) can have an extra second or two to respond with little relevant difference. So clearly there is some depth here I don’t understand.

When you say “Backup your docker config folders”. Are you talking about the directory were you would store the dockerfile / docker compose file?