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Question: Best UI to manage VMs and containers? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by hperrin@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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At this point, I’ve got a lot of containers already running on my system, all in separate directories in my home directory. They’re each set up with a docker-compose file, and all of the volumes are just directories within those directories.

I don’t really want to change this setup, because it allows me to easily rip it all out and transplant it to a new system.

What I’d like is a web UI to see all of these containers, view their status, and potentially reboot them. It would also be great to be able to spin up VMs (not containers, but actual VMs) with it.

I’ve heard of Portainer, but haven’t had any experience with it.

What are your suggestions, and why do you recommend them?

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks. I did check it out and it looks like it’s got some really cool benefits, like being able to cluster across two machines and take one down if it needs servicing, with zero down time.

I’m thinking about buying some rack mount servers and bringing everything I’m currently doing in the cloud for my business to on-premises servers. The one thing I was wary about was how I was going to handle hardware maintenance, and this looks like it would solve that issue nicely.

[–] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For the system itself I would recommend nixos

Some people like it, some people are against progress and they think work should be manual 🤣

I'm using nixos and all my machines, even integrating my phone in it

You can automate and replicate unbelievable stuff with it. You solve a bunch of problems by using nixos

But it's a whole big rabbit whole, and it would take a lot of time to learn how to use it, then a lot of time to set everything up

But you could do zero downtime hardware maintenance without VMs or containers, just by using bare metal

Edit: or with VMs, containers, or k8s. Everything would be just cleaner and cooler