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?
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