I’ve been using Portainer to manage my homelab stacks from a single dashboard, which is more convenient than the CLI, but I’m not very satisfied with it so I’ve been looking for alternatives.
Portainer often fails to deploy them and is either silent about it, or doesn’t give me much information to work with. The main convenience is that (when it works) it automatically pulls the updated docker compose files from my repo and deploys it without any action on my part.
Docker Swarm and Kubernetes seem to be the next ones in line. I have some experience with K8s so I know it can be complex, but I hope it’s a complexity most paid upfront when setting everything up rather than being complicated to maintain.
Do you have any experience with either one of these, or perhaps another way to orchestrate these services?
Docker Compose as is.
I used Portainer for like 2 years when I first learned Docker (I only used to deploy compose file and motoring the container), but it’s really shit when you know how it works.