The alternatives have been better for a while now
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What services do you prefer? Ive no dog in the fight because I just use the CLI but im curious what's out there
I moved to Dockhand, which is more Compose-centric, easier to use (a log viewer that works, imagine that!) and looks nicer (may feel too information-dense by comparison). It's evolving very quickly, obviously with help of AI, but with none of the weird regressions and haphazard product pacing, which makes me think a firm human hand is at the helm.
My recent search for an alternative suggests arcane is the new hotness. Am planning to migrate but haven’t yet done so, so I don’t have a first hand account for you.
I'm currently migrating to arcane at the moment, but got sidetracked by a 2 second mention of authentik in a video talking about the pros of arcane. on the plus I now have sso at home
Would ypu mind elaborating on your migration process ?
Depends on config. I only started after this announcement but I like to use persistent volumes, so it was a case of moving my stack over to a project. Stopping it and deleting in portainer and starting it in arcane. done 4 servers in 2 days. YMMV but was less impactful than I thought and loads of stuff that was locked behind a paywall is suddenly fine.
That's exactly the workflow I had in mind, thanks for confirming :)
I like Komodo, it's reliable and it has a lot of nice features. I previously used DockGE
I've also heard people use Arcane but I didn't give that a fair try before settling on Komodo so I can't judge
Interesting to make this move now when theres a ton of better alternatives. More than likely they saw a big decline in CE adoption and have decided to just do the "enshitify vendor lock in" playbook for their corporate customers.
I like nexus