I often see people mention the Portainer project and how it’s useful, but I never hear any reason to use it other than as a more user friendly front end to service management.

So is there any particular feature or reason to use portainer over docker’s CLI? Or is it simply a method of convenience?

This isn’t only strictly for self hosting, but I figure people here would know better.

  • catloaf
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    2 months ago

    It’s a good way to have all the different parts exposed to you. Once you’re familiar, it’s usually easier to write those parts up in a compose file and just run or rerun docker-compose.

    • yonder@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      This is exactly what I do. I find Portainer to be nice for getting an overview of my containers that are all created using docker-compose.