I was using webmin, but since my last server died and I’m making a new one, I decided I’d look into something different, personally I liked webmin but didn’t use most of its functionality and felt a little clunky for my basic use. I’ve also testran casaos but felt weirdly limited and couldn’t smoothly migrate docker containers to interact with its interface.

I can do with just the terminal, but it’s nice having a gui that I can glance at my phone and quickly do stuff like update and reboot.

I personally haven’t seen or found much conversation into the topic so I figured I’d ask and see what you peeps use and why.

  • ShortN0te@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    4 minutes ago

    The cli.

    I have used management interfaces like coxkpit in the last but i do not really like it that much. I have E-Mail Notifications setup for updates via aptitude and monitor using prometheus and grafana and get additional notifications via prometheus alarm manager.

    For an easy to use docker interface i use dockge, since i found it in this use case to be faster with a good, working, independend Interface.

    But for the Linux underneath, for all 10-20 servers i managae, CLI.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 hours ago
    • Portainer for Docker containers
    • ssh for most real administration tasks
    • Olive Tin for repetitive tasks like sudo apt update
    • Netdata for server metrics and ntopng for metrics on standalone pFsense box
  • Egonallanon@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    Opentofu for all the looking after the config on my proxmox boxes and networking gear. Ansible for everything else.

    I don’t currently have any monitoring set up but it’s in the to do list when I feel like it.

    • motruck@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Check out gatus. Super easy to get up and running depending on what type of monitoring you want to do.

  • eodur@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    4 hours ago

    So many things. Mostly Kubernetes and FluxCD, but also doco-cd for managing a few deployments on my NAS with GitOps.

  • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
    1·
    5 hours ago

    I use tugtainer for managing updates to containers (not automatic). and aside from that, I just apt upgrade every so often.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
    8·
    10 hours ago

    Cockpit is nice for that. The Podman integration of it is also useful.

  • Tolstoy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    8 hours ago

    For system and docker stats I can only recommend beszel. Portainer for docker management and anything else ssh.

  • lietuva@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    8 hours ago

    Ssh, dockhand, beszel. They have nice GUI and setting up notification providers is easy. I am using ntfy, so if my CPU is peaking at 90% for a while, or I if any of the containers become unhealthy I get notification to my phone.

  • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.gardenEnglish
    6·
    11 hours ago
    • Proxmox GUI for restarting hosts or vms
    • Komodo for restarting containers
    • Forgejo for configuring and updating containers (deployed by komodo)
    • Ansible for OS updates
    • Prometheus + Grafana for monitoring

    Those for basic stuff, ssh for everything else.