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by progx 3515 days ago
Nice UI. But my mainproblem is not solved with an UI.

I did not understand who uses only default containers without configuration or only the small possible container configurations? For such people a default UI is perfect.

E.g. Containers with Linked Data-Containers to store the Data outside of a container, or setting up a container with different parameters (company/server specific). For such things i need an extra system which can not be used with your or any other UI.

We build our own small template system to manage Domains, Subdomains and the setup of the software within a container. How could this be connected to your UI?

It would be great if your Template-System will integrate an API, so really configurable Templates will be possible. Allow external Scripts, or better access to an Rest-Api to get configurations. This will be a huge advantage over other standard UIs.

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> E.g. Containers with Linked Data-Containers to store the Data outside of a container, or setting up a container with different parameters (company/server specific). For such things i need an extra system which can not be used with your or any other UI.

What ways are you injecting new data in? This service appears to support environment variables (which sounds right for setting up a container with different parameters) and volumes, do those not meet your needs? I'm always slightly hazy on the volumes-from data-container pattern so perhaps not.

The ENV vars for a container are part of the standard docker system, they work as expected and are supported by many UIs.

I mean how dynamic data come into the Container from the UI, when you setup a new container? I use the data to setup the container, get letsencrypt certificates, update nginx proxy, add to backups, ....

Example: I setup a new Apache+PHP-Container with Domain xyz.com, now i want to add a subdomain abc.xyz.com. How can i do that with the UI and automatically inform my other components about the changes. That is what i mean with, that the UI solve not this problem for me and it has no API to connect. Or their template system is not flexible enough to handle such things.

Currently my data is stored in conf files and i use some custom scripts to create / update the docker containers, update proxy, ....