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If you already know Docker CLI, is there a reason to use Portainer? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I often see people mention the Portainer project and how it's useful, but I never hear any reason to use it other than as a more user friendly front end to service management.

So is there any particular feature or reason to use portainer over docker's CLI? Or is it simply a method of convenience?

This isn't only strictly for self hosting, but I figure people here would know better.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I’m using it to manage a little swarm , the useful thing is that is easy to explain to a non IT person how to log in and restart a service if needed.