Portainer vs Dockge vs Yacht: Picking a Docker Management UI for Your Homelab
Somewhere between your third and tenth self-hosted app, running everything by SSHing in and typing docker compose up -d stops being charming and starts being a chore. You forget which directory a stack lives in, you lose track of which containers have image updates waiting, and checking logs means remembering the right docker logs -f incantation for each one. A web UI on top of Docker doesn’t replace knowing the CLI, you still need it for anything that goes wrong, but it turns routine maintenance into a few clicks instead of a few minutes of typing. The three worth actually considering for a homelab are Portainer, Dockge, and Yacht, and they solve different-sized versions of this problem. ...