I was using webmin, but since my last server died and I’m making a new one, I decided I’d look into something different, personally I liked webmin but didn’t use most of its functionality and felt a little clunky for my basic use. I’ve also testran casaos but felt weirdly limited and couldn’t smoothly migrate docker containers to interact with its interface.
I can do with just the terminal, but it’s nice having a gui that I can glance at my phone and quickly do stuff like update and reboot.
I personally haven’t seen or found much conversation into the topic so I figured I’d ask and see what you peeps use and why.
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ssh, git and docker compose files.
Proxmox to manage my VMs, SSH for anything on the command line and portainer for managing my docker containers.
One day I will switch probably switch to dockge so my docker-compose files are stored plain on the hard drive but for now portainer works flawlessly.
dockge needs me to maintain my dockercompose on its own folder in /opt/ as root.
I just wanna keep my compare in its own repos
Huh, that’s not my case at all, I run everything from the home folder with my user
Yeah, that would be the ideal scenario I guess.
It should technically be possible by mapping the compose files into the opt folder via docker mounts but I think that’s an unreasonable way to go about this since every compose file would need a mounting point
Bash? (and Ansible)
Proxmox gui and ssh for my LXCs
…and nix config and podman in the lxc for me
The cli.
I have used management interfaces like coxkpit in the last but i do not really like it that much. I have E-Mail Notifications setup for updates via aptitude and monitor using prometheus and grafana and get additional notifications via prometheus alarm manager.
For an easy to use docker interface i use dockge, since i found it in this use case to be faster with a good, working, independend Interface.
But for the Linux underneath, for all 10-20 servers i managae, CLI.
ssh
Power button
Terraform, ansible and kubernetes (microk8s).
K8s in particular has been a huge change to simplifying my network despite the complexities involved and the initial learning curve. Deploying and updating services is much easier now.
ssh
🤔 yeah, that and I guess docker?
I had started out with CasaOS and ran it for a year or so. Last week, I took some time to move everything out of Casa’s file structure and cleaned up the compose files.
For container management, I’m using Dockhand. It’s been great.
Otherwise, like most others have said, SSH when I need to do more.
SSH and Ansible using SSH
Ansible using SSH
The moment you discover anything else, you’re gonna be so pleased. It’ll seem so modern! So fast!
Hey, you’re the “Ansible is toxic” guy.
What do you use?So what’s your preferred solution and why?
Home server for me is mostly Ansible for provisioning and systemd for everything else. The trick is keeping it simple enough that you can recover from a broken state without Google. For daily tasks I reach for bare metal SSH or a web interface if it needs to be friendly. K8s is great but I found myself overcomplicating things until I stepped back and remembered: I already know how to SSH into a box.
Cockpit is nice for that. The Podman integration of it is also useful.
+1 to cockpit. My entire network is domain managed and cockpit makes managing everything so much easier
NixOS and SSH I guess?
Virtualmin and cockpit
Ansible or ssh
Exactly this! Oh, and gatus for the nice view (mostly own php talking to gatus api)
