Portainer
Replaced half my Docker command history
My Home Ops server is a 4 GB Ubuntu VM. It already runs a crowded mix of container services including Homarr, Uptime Kuma, Glances, Dozzle, and serves some custom HTTP pages.
Before Portainer, checking on all of them usually meant opening SSH and working through the same tiresome Docker commands:
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- docker ps to see what’s running
- docker stats to check memory and CPU use
- docker inspect to jog my memory of ports, mounts, and restart policies
- docker restart when a service inevitably crashes and needs a restart
None of the commands are difficult, but they deliver information that’s scattered. Portainer pulls it all onto a single page. Its container list shows each service’s state, image, stack, and creation date. The environment dashboard summarizes my images, volumes, networks, and stacks.
Clicking a container shows more detail, including ports, mounts, resource data, logs, and controls.
I tested out Portainer’s functionality by opening up Homarr’s container details and then restarting it from Portainer. That replaced the old SSH procedure of checking the exact container name, running the restart command, and checking it again afterward.