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Should I be learning docker compose instead of relying on dockStarter to manage my containers? I got portainer up, should I just use that to manage my stack?

I’m committed this summer to finally learning docker. I’m on day 3 and the last puzzle piece is being able to access qbittorrent locally while running the container through the vpn.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I recommend Dockge over Portainer if you want a web admin panel. https://github.com/louislam/dockge

It’s basically docker compose in a website, and you can just decide one day to turn it off and use the compose files directly. No proprietary databases or other weirdness.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Seconded, have been using it for a while and its simple and great!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Thirded. It's helped me a lot with picking up the compose syntax, to the point that I'm now comfortable combining disparate services into their own stacks. And I can spin something up from an example compose in less than a minute.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

And it will convert a docker run command to a compare file.

And it has a beta feature where you can point it at a second server and it will manage that too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I've not used dockge so it may be great but at least for this case portainer puts all the stack (docker-compose) files on disk. It's very easy to grab them if the app is unavailable.

I use a single Portainer service to manage 5 servers, 3 local and 2 VPS. I didn't have to relearn anything beyond my management tool of choice (compose, swarm, k8s etc)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It doesn't seem to have the webhooks functionality that Portainer has though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It also works in the “other” direction- if you’re already using compose files, you can point dockge to their existing location (stacks directory) and it will scan and pick them up!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That's the one I use exactly because of that. I know compose, not going to learn another program to do the same, just want something that gives me an easier way to edit them than sshing into my box and using an editor.