I didn't see ansible as a solution here, which I use. I run docker compose only. Each environment is backed up nightly and monitored. If a docker compose pull/up and then image clean breaks a service, I restore from a backup that works and see what went wrong.
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It's really nice once it's going, especially if you link them together in a compose and farm out all the individual ymls for each service, or use something like dockage to do it.
I use k3s and argocd to keep everything synced to the configuration checked into a git repo. But I wouldn't recommend that to someone just getting started with containers; kubernetes is a whole new beast to wrestle with.
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I run Akkoma, Navidrome, Searx, valutwarden, RomM, Forgejo, wireguard, RDP, and a few other things all via docker. Honestly I just keep everything in their own dir and just have Yazi on my server to make it easier to manage. I don't auto update anything, it's all manual updates.
I'm probably going to slap Watchtower in there to just make things easier. don't really need to over think it in all honesty.
I use Portainer (portainer.io) - it’s a prett nice WebUI which lets me manage the whole set of services and easily add new ones as you can edit the compose yaml right in the browser.
There’s no substitute for knowing all the docker commands to help you get around but if you are looking for something to help with management then this might be the way to go.
Watchtower also recommended is probably a good shout just be warned about auto upstating past your config - it’s super easy for the next image you pull to just break your setup because of new ENV or other dependency you’re not aware of.