Portainer VS octoprint-docker

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

Have a look here https://github.com/OctoPrint/octoprint-docker very easy and simple to setup, takes 5 min

OctoPrint is not designed to be used as outlined in this tutorial as such there are known issues; refer here for documentation. Furthermore, since this is an unsupported configuration do NOT contact the developers of OctoPrint nor those of your printer's firmware with troubleshooting or bug reporting. Think of it this way, imagine you paid for OctoPrint or some really awesome community firmware and it came with a lifetime warranty, by proceeding with this guide you would be voiding that warranty. But, guess what? You did not and it does not so you have less than zero right to ask for, much less expect any level of support from them. That said, should you have issues I will try my best to help, but I am not a linux Yoda, I'm not even a bash Grogu (I'm just a random self-taught internet dude with slightly below average intelligence who fancies bending machines to his will like Professor Xavier does minds; SkyNet will find no quarters on my networks or devices!) so it's best to continue with the mindset that basically you're on your own from here on out. If anything I say is imprecise or inaccurate, please kindly let me know and I will make the appropriate edits.

I recently set up my raspberry pi 4 (8gb) to run multiple instances of Octoprint using Docker, Docker Compose, Portainer, and the appropriate app image. As far as I could find there are no concise and coherent guides to do this and I'm fairly sure there are none that use Portainer. I opted to use Portainer (Cockpit is too limited) to provide a GUI to make things as noob friendly as possible; I'm no silicon sorcerer, linux ninja and probably haven't even achieved the status of bash bunny, script kiddie, but I managed. It seems to be an more elegant solution than Chris Riley's various methods. Although I'm unsure of all the trade offs relative to his methods and idc about webcams.