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The box I'm running pihole on hosts several other services as well, so I dread having to reinstall everything. Most of it is dockerized, but still.
Anyway, I also waffled back and forth on dockerizing pihole when I initially installed it ... but ended up going bare metal, and now I wish I would have gone docker from the start. The initial install is perhaps slightly more complicated, but it's so much more maintainable and transportable to other devices: transfer volumes, and run your docker-compose.yml on the other box ... and voila, you've cloned your pihole. I use that system to keep my backup pihole in sync by the way.
Indeed, it doesn't run dnsmasq separately anymore, but somehow incorporates all dnsmasq capabilities and it still uses dnsmasq syntax config files, and can be configured to include the
/etc/dnsmasq.dconfigs.