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I often see people mention the Portainer project and how it's useful, but I never hear any reason to use it other than as a more user friendly front end to service management.

So is there any particular feature or reason to use portainer over docker's CLI? Or is it simply a method of convenience?

This isn't only strictly for self hosting, but I figure people here would know better.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Like many GUIs it makes it so you don't have to remember and type a bunch of commands to carry out basic tasks. I especially find it convenient for checking logs. But no unique functionality compared to CLI. So it's a matter of preference.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

But that's also why you don't know the commands in the first place, if you used them you would remember them. It's self sustaining ignorance ;)

Ps: I kid, there a lot of stuff I don't care to remember the cli for and I happily use GUI.

PPS: docker logs -f container_name ;)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

The constant argument in this space that you must know the arcane workings of everything you use, is exhausting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

This is why you use fish shell and just type something vaguely similar to what you remember and hit the up arrow key.