What to people use and recommend for this? I’ve read a bit about portainer, but I’m still learning - and don’t know what the best solutions are.
Today I have a handful of selfhosted services running on my home machine - mostly installed directly, but a couple running as docker containers. As the scale of my selfhosting has grown, I’ve realized that things would be a lot easier to manage if each service was run as its own container, so that installed services don’t actually affect things on my base OS.
The solution I’m looking for would make it easy (possibly a web UI) for me to monitor, modify, update, and remove containerized services, including networking and storage.


I’ll second podman quadlets. Good security, full integration with systemd, pods allow applications to easily share a namespace, and you can manage graphically through Cockpit if you really want to.
Do you have an example of quadlets you defined that share a namespace?
It’s a function of a “pod” within podman.
I wrote the podman examples for AudioMuseAI using a pod: https://github.com/NeptuneHub/AudioMuse-AI/tree/main/deployment/podman-quadlets
And I have an example *arr suite on my GitHub page: https://github.com/K3CAN/podman-arr-quadlets
systemd integration would be nice