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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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[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Proxmox doesn't manage docker, it wouldn't do anything for OP.

[–] rsolva@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Proxmox does VMs and containers (LXC). You can run any docker / podman manager you want in a container.

Benefits of having Proxmox as the base is ZFS / snapshoting and easy setup of multiple boot drives, which is really nice when one drive inevitably fails 😏

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes but Proxmox doesn't manage docker, OP wants a webUI to see all their docker containers.

I agree running Proxmox as a base OS is the way to go, but you'll still need Dockge, Portainer, etc to have a webUI for docker stuff.

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

Portainer doesn't manage VMs either

But at least you can do docker inside proxmox, and kinda manage it, or put something else on top of it