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What to people use and recommend for this? I've read a bit about portainer, but I'm still learning - and don't know what the best solutions are.

Today I have a handful of selfhosted services running on my home machine - mostly installed directly, but a couple running as docker containers. As the scale of my selfhosting has grown, I've realized that things would be a lot easier to manage if each service was run as its own container, so that installed services are isolated.

The solution I'm looking for would make it easy (possibly a web UI) for me to monitor, modify, update, and remove containerized services, including networking and storage.

Edit: Also I would only want a FOSS solution.

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[–] Novi@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Dockge - https://github.com/louislam/dockge

Docker compose with webui and upgrade button.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

I'll second Dockge. It works alongside Docker containers and doesn't try to shove configs into nonstandard locations and whatnot. Plus if you have multiple Docker instances, you can install Dockge on each of them and link them all together. Very handy.

[–] valar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks, I'll look into this