Setting Up ZNC with Docker
ZNC is an IRC bouncer, which is a program that acts as a middleman between your IRC client and any servers you connect to. This provides a number of benefits, the most notable of which is chat history while your client is closed. This guide is how I set up
I have a Raspberry Pi connected to my network that I use as a DNS server with Pi-hole🔗 and nginx-proxy🔗, as well as a host for several web-based services. Each service is a Docker container, which I manage through a single Docker Compose file. To install ZNC, I simply add a container to the Compose file.
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I’ve been out of commission and stuck in bed for the past few weeks, and this weekend was the first time I could sit in at all in a few weeks, so I wanted to do a small project. There has been some chatter about self-hosting cloud services in the Yesterweb forum🔗, and I decided I wanted to give it a shot.
My home hardware situation is a little lacking, but I do have a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB with an external hard disk attached, which is sufficient for a few services. I decided to start with Jellyfin🔗 because I have been starting to manage my own music library locally again, to supplement my usage of Spotify. Jellyfin was attractive because it solves a long-time gripe I’ve had with Spotify: management of local media files is absolute shit.
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