After trying out Cosmos Cloud (and it not working for the clients), I’m back at square one again. I was going to install Docker Desktop, but I see it warns that it runs on a VM. Will this be a problem when trying to remote connect to certain services, like Mealie or Jellyfin?
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, automates assignment of IPs when connecting to a network DNS Domain Name Service/System Git Popular version control system, primarily for code HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web HTTPS HTTP over SSL IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol for email IP Internet Protocol Plex Brand of media server package SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL VPN Virtual Private Network VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
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I’d bite the bullet and learn how to use Compose from the command line so you can work on it over SSH. If you want a UI, try LazyDocker
A lot of people don’t know that Docker Desktop is actually proprietary.
There is Cockpit which allows you to manage the server and has simple management for containers. However, I recommend using something like Dockge with compose because it makes it easier to change the configuration of containers without recreating them manually.
Why run Docker Desktop when it’s installable as a cli service?
What are you actually trying to achieve?
ease of use.
I’m a noob at networking.
there’s only one way to get better at it. by doing it.
Or if it’s not something that’s valuable to you just do it the easy way.
Check out CasaOS. Really easy to set up.
As a Mac user who’s migrated over to Linux over the past year or so, I’ve got an idea of where OP is coming from.
Docker on macOS is accessed via a Desktop GUI, so you can easily see what you have installed, how it’s running, etc… So when I shifted over to Linux, I was thrown off by there being no such tool. I wasn’t used to using a terminal to do everything, and grumbled quite a lot about there being no Docker Desktop GUI, given how many self-hostable services run through Docker.
I’ve since gotten used to it, but it really is quite jarring.
You can run a Portainer container to manage your containers
I just run Docker CLI and Dockge on top of it. Works great. Dockge gives me the general “most-used” controls, and if I need to do anything more advanced I can just drop into the terminal.
