Portainer VS Yacht

I'd say that going from Docker Compose to Docker Swarm is the first logical step, because it's included in a Docker install and also uses the same Compose format (with more parameters, such as deployment constraints, like which node hostname or tag you want a certain container to be scheduled on): https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/compose-file-v3... That said, you won't see lots of Docker Swarm professionally anymore - it's just the way the job market is, despite it being completely sufficient for many smaller projects out there, I'm running it in prod successfully so far and it's great.

Another reasonably lightweight alternative would be Hashicorp Nomad, because it's free, simple to deploy and their HCL format isn't too bad either, as long as you keep things simple, in addition to them supporting more than just container workloads: https://www.hashicorp.com/products/nomad That said, if you don't buy into HashiStack too much, then there won't be too much benefit from learning HCL and translating the contents of various example docker-compose.yml files that you see in a variety of repos out there, although their other tools are nice - for example, Consul (a service mesh). This is a nice but also a bit niche option.

Lastly, there is Kubernetes. It's complicated, even more so when you get into solutions like Istio, typically eats up lots of resources, can be difficult to manage and debug, but does pretty much anything that you might need, as long as you have either enough people to administer it, or a wallet that's thick enough for you to pay one of the cloud vendors to do it for you. Personally, I'd look into the lightweight clusters at first, like k0s, MicroK8s, or perhaps the K3s project in particular: https://k3s.io/

I'd also suggest that if you get this far, don't be afraid to look into options for dashboards and web based UIs to make exploring things easier:

  - for Docker Swarm and Kubernetes there is Portainer: https://www.portainer.io/

Portainer - Makes managing my homelab, gateway and (Pi0) DNS server extremely easy and fun. Traefik - Great companion for the above. For those who don't know for some reason - a simple, yet extremely powerful reverse proxy. Docker - Should be obvious, but I would feel bad if I didn't give it a shoutout. If you haven't heard of it - go and learn, please, it'll make your life beautiful.

Portainer - Web UI for managing Docker Containers

> Why there are needs to use docker GUIs?

Because to some people using GUIs are more approachable and in some case objectively better (e.g. telling the state of things at a glance and efficiently using screen real estate, with graphs and whatnot), whereas the ways they're worse in might not dealbreakers (e.g. lack of automation, given that there can still be APIs or access to the underlying cluster anyways).

For an example of this, see pieces of software that one can use to manage orchestrators:

- Portainer: https://www.portainer.io/

- Rancher: https://www.rancher.com/products/rancher

Some orchestrators even include dashboards on their own:

- Kubernetes dashboard: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/...

- Nomad web UI: https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/tutorials/web-ui

And some of that applies to running regular containers and managing them locally: for many it can be useful to be able to just click around to discover more details about a container, as well as what's using storage and so on. Thankfully the CLIs of Docker and competing runtimes are pretty well structured as they are, but I guess it's just a different type of UX.

At the end of the day, what works for you, or even what you find comfortable to use, might not be the case for someone else and vice versa. It's definitely nice to have that choice in the first place, and to know the various options out there.

- Portainer

Breaking it down a bit more: - 'handle_path /docker/' means to handle on calls to http://example.tailnet-def456.ts.net/docker/ - 'reverse_proxy / portainer:9000' means to reverse proxy those calls to "portainer" (that's the container name on the docker network) on port 9000. That's where I have hosted my docker manager (https://www.portainer.io/)

From purely an administration standpoint, I'd recommend Cockpit. For Docker, I'd also recommend Portainer. Maybe for Minecraft, try out Pterodactyl - I personally haven't used it myself but I've heard good things about it.

Portainer - Web UI for managing Docker Containers

/u/SelfhostedPro is the dev and he's active on reddit. I sent him a message two months ago where he responded with "The main place we communicate is in Discord, there is a link on my GitHub profile for this. You can use https://shipwright.yacht.sh to build it with a visual builder if you’d like. I’ve been pretty busy with work and unable to really contribute much to the project lately. I would do my own subreddit for it but I’m unsure if there’d be enough interest to get anything of substance out of it." I created /r/Yachtsh/ after that, but I haven't uploaded my new templates. Maybe he'll put more time into the project if he sees some support on https://github.com/SelfhostedPro/Yacht or https://discord.com/invite/KpKutvC.

If you have a dashboard and prefer UI, check this out https://github.com/SelfhostedPro/Yacht

Portainer looks popular but it's actually not easy to use, can't see which container is upgradable and doesn't even care to support mobile.

I found an alternative which is still a very young project but I've replaced Portainer.

https://github.com/SelfhostedPro/Yacht

Hey, I recently tackled this myself and implemented the dashboard idea: https://github.com/selfhostedpro/yacht I've made some posts here previously about it.

Hey, just as a note, Yacht has some stats and has compose support: https://github.com/selfhostedpro/yacht

This is what I did with my app that started out as a flask app (has since moved to fastapi+vuejs but the flask version is still alive in the legacy-flask branch) https://github.com/selfhostedpro/yacht). If you have any questions or want any tips, feel free to reach out.

As far as taking on multiple jobs, my actual dayjob comes first and I need to have a good work life balance so updates come whenever I’m feeling motivated enough but that doesn’t seem to have stopped people from using it. https://github.com/selfhostedpro/yacht