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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right? I'm fully capable of using docker compose. But portainer adds an easy and useful admin layer to it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What specifically does portainer add?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty buttons and the ability to scroll and see all my configs in one window with a single click

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty buttons

Umm okay. Personal preference.

the ability to scroll and see all my configs in one window with a single click

Isn't scrolling a single docker-compose.yml easier to see everything? I mean, if you want to change anything - you just edit and re-run command.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Isn't scrolling a single docker-compose.yml easier to see everything? I mean, if you want to change anything - you just edit and re-run command.

Personal preference. I prefer a gui for some things. I also prefer to not put all my containers in one monolithic config. It can also automate using configs in GitHub which is nice.

It also provides a nice dashboard of container health across multiple hosts and makes it easy to manage those hosts from a "single pane of glass".

But, personal preference.

I ran a kvm host manually for years. Years. I recently started over with proxmox because it could be exhausting and this is easier.

[–] h_a_r_u_k_i 1 points 1 year ago

Click something and you're there (e.g. viewing logs of a container). You don't have to remember docker commands to do simple and quick operations.