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.
Well, I use it but it’s not directly what I think you are asking about.
I just use Proxmox (hypervisor) to run vm/lxc which run docker - and I just have backup images of those.
It has pros & cons but it’s not a docker backup, it’s just that by chance it’s ok for the little use I need it.
I would go for one of the other recommended solutions but perhaps consider a Proxmox layer underneath if you wanna a full image backup of the server itself.