10 Apps For Your Homelab In 2021
You may have lots of reasons for what you run your lab but there is an always growing list of new things to try in your homelab or server. Check out this quick list of 10 apps that you can try out and see if you can get some new functionality for free through self-hosting.
Portainer
Docker is a powerful tool that can allow you to host and run apps easily on your servers. Now, docker’s main interface is a command-line tool but with an application like Portainer you get a nice GUI interface to manage your host’s docker client.
Portainer supports your running Docker environments, Docker Swarms, local or remote by interfacing either directly with the local docker.sock on your host or the remote docker endpoint. The UI can easily be used for either monitoring the status of containers, reading current logs or building and modifying docker container stacks (Dockerfile).
It’s a well thought out interface, well supported with updates and very low maintenance. It tries to guide you where it can to use the more advanced features of docker to your advantage.
