Generically, Portainer can manage multiple servers at once, each running their own Docker. For home server usage, I just use it as a frontend to docker-compose

Generically, Portainer can manage multiple servers at once, each running their own Docker. For home server usage, I just use it as a frontend to docker-compose files that gives me a pretty UI I can access from a web browser, instead of needing to SSH in to the home server.