Best way to manage all my services as containers? (lemmy.ca)

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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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[-] valar@lemmy.ca 2 points 17 hours ago

Thanks, I've heard of this too. Its hard to tell what the differences in use-case all of these are. I'll have to do more research into how they work.

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