I just recently moved a bunch of my services to docker compose and it is a breeze to setup. All you need is a config file and your squared away. No more dealing with lxc or manually configuring software. Just write a config and your done.
Helm is also very cool for this but for Kubernetes instead of individual containers. So if you want to deploy a whole application that runs several services you can just write a helm config and it stands up everything for you.
Good to know! I’ve been thinking of switching my setup to Kubernetes, especially after dealing with some unstable services that need to be run in the correct order.
Now add Portainer to the mix.
I barely know what I’m doing, and I have about 30 services thanks to Portainer stacks making it so freakin’ easy.
I can even manage my local containers and my containers on Oracle Cloud in the same Portainer UI.
Be careful with portainer. While a nice UI, it abstracts away so much of the inner docker workings that you may not fully understand how your system works, if you exclusively interface with docker through this UI. You will ultimately have to get into the nitty gritty when something breaks (it will) and not understanding your stack will be cruel at that point.