docker-gen VS janus

Compare docker-gen vs janus and see what are their differences.

docker-gen

Generate files from docker container meta-data (by nginx-proxy)
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docker-gen janus
7 1
4,355 2,739
0.6% 0.7%
8.4 3.1
8 days ago about 2 months ago
Go Go
MIT License MIT License
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docker-gen

Posts with mentions or reviews of docker-gen. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-25.
  • Going to reinstall.. need ideas.
    5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 25 Feb 2023
    I've not got around to it, but I've always fancied creating a nice landing page that automatically updates as services come up/down, using the system jwilder created to make nginx-proxy, docker-gen. Could be a fun little project, anyway!
  • Tools for automation and daily tasks
    12 projects | /r/automation | 31 Oct 2022
    https://github.com/nginx-proxy/acme-companion https://github.com/nginx-proxy/docker-gen https://github.com/projectdiscovery/dnsx https://github.com/projectdiscovery/httpx https://github.com/projectdiscovery/mapcidr https://github.com/debauchee/barrier https://github.com/stedolan/jq https://github.com/ddosify/ddosify https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized https://github.com/motiv-labs/janus
  • Easiest solution for local deployment?
    5 projects | /r/docker | 18 Sep 2022
    Then to make deployment super easy we're using nginx-proxy which uses docker-gen (and the acme-companion for automatic SSL cert generation) to automatically re-configure an nginx reverse proxy to point to your containers.
  • Need help with a flexible configuration for Node and Nginx
    3 projects | /r/node | 14 Sep 2022
    I've now got a setup using docker where the reverse proxy configuration is within the container's configuration (using nginx-proxy, which uses docker-gen). That way I just set the host, path, etc. in my container config, deploy, and the nginx servers are re-configured accordingly. No need to worry about ports and IPs then either.
  • How do you manage and maintain the order of your container ports? It's a bit of a mess on my personal server
    4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 10 Sep 2022
    I use an automated nginx reverse proxy. What this does is setup an nginx reverse proxy which uses docker-gen (follow the advice of setting it up separately). docker-gen listens for docker events such as a container being run, inspects that container for the details it needs (port, host, etc.) then configures the nginx accordingly.

janus

Posts with mentions or reviews of janus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-31.
  • Tools for automation and daily tasks
    12 projects | /r/automation | 31 Oct 2022
    https://github.com/nginx-proxy/acme-companion https://github.com/nginx-proxy/docker-gen https://github.com/projectdiscovery/dnsx https://github.com/projectdiscovery/httpx https://github.com/projectdiscovery/mapcidr https://github.com/debauchee/barrier https://github.com/stedolan/jq https://github.com/ddosify/ddosify https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized https://github.com/motiv-labs/janus

What are some alternatives?

When comparing docker-gen and janus you can also consider the following projects:

nginx-proxy - Automated nginx proxy for Docker containers using docker-gen

Moby - The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems

acme-companion - Automated ACME SSL certificate generation for nginx-proxy

dnsx - dnsx is a fast and multi-purpose DNS toolkit allow to run multiple DNS queries of your choice with a list of user-supplied resolvers.

Mailcow - mailcow: dockerized - 🐮 + 🐋 = 💕

traefik - The Cloud Native Application Proxy

awesome-sysadmin - MOVED/ARCHIVED A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources.

Lean and Mean Docker containers - Slim(toolkit): Don't change anything in your container image and minify it by up to 30x (and for compiled languages even more) making it secure too! (free and open source)

httpx - httpx is a fast and multi-purpose HTTP toolkit that allows running multiple probes using the retryablehttp library.

ddosify - Effortless Kubernetes Monitoring and Performance Testing. Available on CLI, Self-Hosted, and Cloud

watchtower - A process for automating Docker container base image updates.