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Portainer 3.0 is coming, and here's what it means for you — Portainer (portainer.io)
submitted 3 weeks ago by antheraeavx@slrpnk.net to c/selfhosting@slrpnk.net
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/47815424

Portainer is changing to a mostly AI and kubernetes supported app.

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[–] femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Since I posted that I have migrated to arcane.

[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Portainer-ce is staying on 2.*. Will look into arcane

[–] ALERT@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

why dance with asking Portainer pretty please to give you a license when there are multiple alternatives that are free and fully functional.

[–] femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I set it up years ago and never looked at others, this made me go research other software. Not like I'll be missed. I never paid and my company uses openshift.

[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I like Portainer Agent. And I got used to the Portainer UI. Are there any others that support distributed environments like Portainer + Agents?

[–] ALERT@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Arcane.

[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I had looked through the docs and didn't see anything to indicate that there are agents or equivalent. Can you point me to the right place?

[–] antheraeavx@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm working on doing the same for my set-up, so that's encouraging! I like having a visual dashboard for my services, and Arcane seems like a good replacement.

[–] ALERT@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

it means I moved to Arcane with zero features left behind

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

As someone who has been OOTL regarding self-hosting for the last few months... what is the -real- difference between Arcane and Portainer?

[–] ALERT@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

There are basically none. I found zero features that I was missing after the transition. More so, there are features that Arcane has, but Portainer doesn't: notifications, container update checks, container auto-updates.

[–] higgsboson@piefed.social 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Must be a sign. Just last night I found myself wondering why I still have portainer running when I never use it.

[–] RxBrad@infosec.pub 2 points 3 weeks ago

I opted for Dockhand instead of Arcane. It's a whole lot less vibe coded.

Also, switching over from Portainer was easy-peasy. Just stopped Portainer stack, paste stack & env's into Dockhand & start it. Repeat until done. (I did have to replace any Portainer env_file: stack.envs with env_file: .env)

[–] amelore@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I also started out with Portainer and Docker, as a beginner I thought it was easy.

I've not switched to a different web interface, but removed it and started using rootless podman quadlets. I do have to do some stuff myself because of this.

[–] datendefekt@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Rootless podman is the way. Still have portainer set up because so many projects just have documentation for docker compose and just aren’t worth the pain to get them working with podman. Looking at you, immich!