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Re: Show HN: Portainer – A lightweight management UI for Docker

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A similar project[1] which is also open source[2] and looks a lot similar. [1] https://shipyard-project.com/ [2] https://github.com/shipyard/shipyard

Hey there ! We have a comparison table on our website: http://portainer.io/portainer-comparison.html The main advantage against shipyard is that you only need to deploy one container to run Portainer, it's really simple and quick. Shipyard deployment is more complex.

Have you ever thought about adding support for kvm/QEMU/virsh-based virtual machines as well? I've been looking for a easy to use interface that gives a comprehensive overview of virtual machines as well as containers as I'm often using a mix of both.

Re: Show HN: Portainer – A lightweight management UI for Docker

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It's like Rancher but for Docker Swarm (or just a host with Docker). I really like it! We run our own container registry for our engineering group based on Artifactory. Could this be made to work with that (or even Quay)? [EDIT]Actually I just deployed this and saw that you can support other registries out of the box. Cool!

I agree. Rancher has too many balls in the air. They are trying to support Cattle, Swarm, Mesos, Kubernetes...

As a result they aren't terribly good at anything (The UI is insanely slow). Other specialized tools that just focus on one orchestration framework could zoom past Rancher. Look at the Kubernetes UI in 1.4.

Re: Show HN: Portainer – A lightweight management UI for Docker

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Main developer here, feel free to ask any questions :)

Will there be a OSX (MacOS) version? It's quite rare for software to have Windows and Linux support, but no OSX support.

I tried the instructions for Linux on a Mac: https://portainer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deployment.html#c.... (I'm guessing the developers simply haven't tested on Mac) So far, it seems to work. My guess is that the developers haven't had a chance to test on a Mac and just don't want to make any claims just yet.

Re: Show HN: Portainer – A lightweight management UI for Docker

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post #9

A similar project[1] which is also open source[2] and looks a lot similar. [1] https://shipyard-project.com/ [2] https://github.com/shipyard/shipyard

Hey there ! We have a comparison table on our website: http://portainer.io/portainer-comparison.html The main advantage against shipyard is that you only need to deploy one container to run Portainer, it's really simple and quick. Shipyard deployment is more complex.

That comparison looks inaccurate. Shipyard does support tagging images. Also will support Swarm [1] mode (and volume/ network support)

[1] https://github.com/shipyard/shipyard/pull/837

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