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.
What do you use for repeatable recovery and deployment of systems?
I’ve looked at ArgoCD and FlexCD. ArgoCD was too flaky. When I made changes to helm files it would often fail to deploy them and the UI often wouldn’t really show the detailed errors from things like helm syntax errors, so it was a pain to troubleshoot.
FlexCD was just really a pain to configure in the first-place and I didn’t want to learn kustomize when I already have helm charts.
And neither really supported staged deployments or dealt with dependant services well. So I couldn’t get it to deploy the infrastructure level helm charts like PostgreSQL before deploying the services that depend on it. Technically, with Kubernetes it shouldn’t matter about the order of deployment but in reality when ArgoCD would deploy the other stuff first and wait for it to come up and it never came up because the dependencies weren’t there, it caused it to choke a lot.
Just an example of the issues I’ve had. But I really want an easy way to make lots of small changes to charts and deploy them quickly as well as being able to quickly recover the cluster from backups if something catastrophic happens like a fire without having to manually deploy each chart. Just curious how others handle it or if it’s always manual deployment of charts via CLI only.