Docker

Managing a homelab often involves a lot of manual repetition: spin up a container, add a DNS record in Pi-hole, then create a proxy host in Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM).

What is Portainer? # Portainer is a lightweight, powerful container management platform that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to manage your Docker, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes environments. It essentially sits on top of your container runtime, allowing you to control complex infrastructure without needing to master the command line.

What is Docker? # Docker is an awesome platform that anyone hoping to get into software / development or any homelab-er should become familiar with. Docker is a platform designed to help developers build, share, and run container applications. The most important aspect to docker is its ability to be implemented in version control via simple config files. This allowing a team of people to share a code base working in the same environments consistently.