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Re: Self-Hosting like it's 2025

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Post by Helmut10001 »

I tried portainer once, it looked nice and had a lot of features... for which I had no use. I always found `docker compose` much easier to use, it is often just an alias and a tab away, where for portainer I would have to open a browser tab and sometimes even touch my mouse!

Otherwise good article. If you want to go rootless (which you should!), Podman is the way to go; but Docker works rootless too, with some modifications [1]. I have found Docker rootless to be reliable and robust on both Debian and Ubuntu. It also solves permissions problems because your rootless user owns files inside and outside the container, whereas with rootful setups all files outside the container are owned by root, which can be a pain.

Also, you don't need Watchtower. Automatic `docker compose pull` can be setup using standard crontab, see [2].

[1]: https://du.nkel.dev/blog/2023-12-12_mastodon-docker-rootless...

[2]: https://du.nkel.dev/blog/2023-12-12_mastodon-docker-rootless...

Re: Self-Hosting like it's 2025

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Post by kalaksi »

Helmut10001 wrote: post #3

I tried portainer once, it looked nice and had a lot of features... for which I had no use. I always found `docker compose` much easier to use, it is often just an alias and a tab away, where for portainer I would have to open a browser tab and sometimes even touch my mouse! Otherwise good article. If you want to go rootless (which you should!), Podman is the way to go; but Docker works rootless too, with some modifi…

Can I suggest Lightkeeper (I'm the maintainer): https://github.com/kalaksi/lightkeeper. I made it for my own needs to simplify repetitive tasks and provide an efficient view, and it has hotkeys and trying to stay "agile". You can drop to a terminal with a hotkey any time.

Re: Self-Hosting like it's 2025

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Post by nodesocket »

I recently discovered Beszel (https://github.com/henrygd/beszel) for monitoring all my homelab servers. It's quick, easy, and has a very clean and intuitive interface. Works especially well running inside of containers on hosts. I also wrote a very quick guide on getting it running inside of Kubernetes at https://github.com/henrygd/beszel/discussions/431.

While it's not nearly as powerful as say DataDog, it provides the core essentials of CPU, memory, disk, network, temperature and even GPU monitoring (via agent only).

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