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What to people use and recommend for this? I've read a bit about portainer, but I'm still learning - and don't know what the best solutions are.

Today I have a handful of selfhosted services running on my home machine - mostly installed directly, but a couple running as docker containers. As the scale of my selfhosting has grown, I've realized that things would be a lot easier to manage if each service was run as its own container, so that installed services are isolated.

The solution I'm looking for would make it easy (possibly a web UI) for me to monitor, modify, update, and remove containerized services, including networking and storage.

Edit: Also I would only want a FOSS solution.

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[โ€“] Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@K3can So you're running the systemd services as root, and letting systemd change them to their relevant users? Or are you running the systemd services as a non-privileged user, and using container subuid/subgids?

[โ€“] K3can@lemmy.radio -1 points 1 month ago

The first one. The service is owned by root, but the application is running as an unprivileged system user.