Portainer and Cockpit if you want to run VM (it also manage container but only with podman)
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Cockpit looks interesting. It’s got a lot of features I normally do with terminal commands, but the VM manager stuff looks like what I’m looking for.
I tried portainer and it was overkill for my usage, too much overhead and too many features that I don't need.
Right now I'm using ajenti 2, which shows memory and CPU usage for the docker containers in the web page
If you're running a compatible OS (Debian will work), cockpit for VMs and whatever you like for containers.
Or just do everything on the command line like us crusty system admins
Cockpit is great.
It's pretty simplistic. It gives you an overview of your system ressources and handles libvirt VMs and Docker (i think. I used it with Podman, but in this context both should work).
My impression was that the container and VM interfaces were pretty simple, and I wouldn't have liked it as my main interface for those services, but it would be perfect for getting an overview and restarting them!
Dockge or Portainer are both good options.
For VMs you'll need to find something else, you could use Cockpit for that.
Thanks for mentioning Dockge, hadn't heard of it yet. Already use portainer but it seems a bit overkill for me and my few containers. Will try Dockge.
Do they work with podman? Or anything for podman?
What about incus, the LXD fork, with the webui? Incus is so simple/logical for managing both VMs and containers (and you can run docker inside of them) and the webui lets you manage it from a browser if desired
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| LXC | Linux Containers |
| SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
| ZFS | Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity |
| k8s | Kubernetes container management package |
4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 11 acronyms.
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What's wrong with ssh?
Nothing. I’ve been using SSH. I’d like to have both options, SSH and a web UI.