I have been using Portainer for about 6 or 7 years. Recently the company announced version 3.0, a rebuild of the platform around Kubernetes, and that there will be no community version of it. Although version 2 will still get fixes and backports when possible, I took the opportunity to try something new. Especially since I’m not interested in Kubernetes and this seems to be the focus of Portainer from now on. For quite some time I already had Dockhand in my bookmarks, but never took a close look. I launched a container and have to say, the user experience is similar to Portainer’s, it even feels a bit cleaner and has a few more features. The setup just took a few minutes and everything was working out of the box. Great!
services:
dockhand:
image: fnsys/dockhand:v1.0.54
container_name: dockhand
restart: unless-stopped
environment:
- DATA_DIR=/opt/dockhand
volumes:
- /opt/containers/dockhand/data:/opt/dockhand
- /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
- /opt/containers:/opt/containers # this path is added to access local docker-compose.yml files, created outside dockhand
group_add:
- "988"
networks:
- proxy
networks:
proxy:
external: true