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May I ask why people are using these desktop apps instead of Portainer and other web interfaces that run inside docker?
by ddtaylor 2y ago
May I ask why people are using these desktop apps instead of Portainer and other web interfaces that run inside docker?
- __jonas 2y agoNot a direct answer, but for me, lazydocker (TUI) is the best possible solution for this sort of thing - Don't need to have another service running in the background constantly, using up server resources - Don't need to expose another service including authentication on the server like with a web interface, can just use it via SSH - Works locally the exact same way as on a remote machine, unlike some desktop GUIs - A nice, live, interactive overview of all running containers and their logs unlike with the docker CLI (I find the output of `docker ps` impossible to read, it ALWAYS wraps the output for each container across two lines in my terminal and I can't tell how the values line up)
- mrweasel 2y agoBecause I mostly don't like web interfaces. It's not that Portainer is bad, it's not, it's really good actually, but I like software to show up as their own thing when I tab between windows. I don't want yet another tab in my browser, I also don't use webmail, web based chat clients, IDEs, newsreaders and so on. I'm mostly okay with Electron apps, if their done right (VSCode and 1Password comes to mind a two really good examples).