Might be related to this other post: https://lemmy.ca/post/24478184

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Firstly, this post is not to celebrate somebody losing their job, nor to poke fun at a company struggling in today’s market.

However, it might go some way to explaining why Portainer are tightening up the free Business plan from 5 to 3 nodes

https://x.com/theseanodell/status/1809328238097056035

Sean O’Dell

My time at Portainer came to an end in May due to restructuring/layoffs. I am proud of the work the team and I put in. Being the Head of Marketing is challenging but I am thankful for the personal growth and all that we accomplished. Monday starts the search for my next role!

  • OtterOPAEnglish
    15·
    6 months ago

    I also saw a post about a portainer alternative, anyone know others?

    Monitor (docs.monitor.mogh.tech) (from the other site)

    • “core API and periphery agent are written in Rust”
    • Nice UI & lots of features
    • I wish it had a different name because “Monitor” is very hard to search with

    DockGe from the other post

    • Looks like it’s popular, from the other post

    • Features are more limited, no environment variables yet I don’t think

    • Uninvited GuestEnglish
      12·
      6 months ago

      I rolled out Dockge the other week, and it’s solid. It can handle environment variables, but lacks other portainer features like controlling networks, volumes, building images, etc.

      One big plus is that Dockge works really well with the dockcheck.sh script for updates, where as Portainer breaks that script.

      • paris@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        I started with Yacht and moved to Portainer. Yacht’s ui was just too heavy and unresponsive for me. I got logged out of sessions without it actually telling me almost every time I used Yacht. I would have to log out and in again just to use it (a process that often freezed up as well for reasons I cannot comprehend). I finally had enough and switched to Portainer; not a single complaint since.

      • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Used it for a bit but I didn’t like how you have to deploy things from templates which are basically compose files that don’t look like compose files.

      • JASN_DE@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        There are some things that are easier to see and check in Portainer, but for pure compose handling (up, down, logs) dockge works really well.

    • fjordbasa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      The thing about dockge is that it’s easy to go to and from using it. It can scan existing folders for compose files, and because it uses compose files itself, you could just as easily start containers made by dockge without dockge even running.

      Of course, this means it lacks some of the fancier features of something like portainer, but I personally enjoy the simplicity

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      6 months ago

      Another risk with Monitor, which may get better with time. Is that FOSS rust projects have a tendency to slow down or even stall due to the time cost of writing features, and the very small dev community available to pick up slack when original creators/maintainers drop off, burn out, or get too busy with life.

      To be clear: I have nothing against rust. It’s a fantastic language filling in a crucial gap that’s existed for decades. However, it’s I’ll suited for app development, that’s just not it’s strength.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      I could see using it in an environment with lots of docker hosts and a team to maintain it all. Just having compose files would get unwieldy when you’ve got 100 servers and a team of devops and devs all poking around in things.

  • Gutless2615@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    717·
    6 months ago

    Portainer is just training wheels for people that haven’t learned to manage their own containers yet.

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
      122·
      6 months ago

      Why are you here if you’re just going to insult hobbyists in the community dedicated to hobbyists.

      This isn’t the kind of vibe /c/selfhosted needs

      • Gutless2615@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        17·
        6 months ago

        This is going to blow your mind but it’s a joke, and not even a mean spirited one. We all started with training wheels, nothing wrong with that.