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by dicknuckle 1212 days ago
RancherOS if you're looking to use something heavily tested but it's got a few weird features like most of the OS also being in containers. If you want something light to play with and get a vanilla docker experience, your best bet is likely Boot2Docker with Portainer.
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candiddevmike 1212 days ago
The existing RancherOS is no longer being maintained, you probably shouldn't be using it anymore:

https://rancher.com/docs/os/v1.x/en/support/

Rancher is working on a new version.

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dicknuckle 1212 days ago
News to me! Apparently I haven't used it in quite some time.
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gtirloni 1212 days ago
Hasn't 2.x been released for a long time now?
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arjvik 1212 days ago
Really? I loved the original RancherOS, would love to see the new version!
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gtirloni 1212 days ago
I think I'm confusing Rancher "proper" and RancherOS, sorry.

https://github.com/rancher/rancher/releases/tag/v2.7.1

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mikepurvis 1212 days ago
When I last used Portainer on my home setup, the support for configuration-as-code deployment seemed pretty experimental— basically you could roll out a docker-compose config from a URL or upload as a one-off effort, but IIRC it had no ability to track that URL for changes, or update an already-deployed container set to a new configuration. I think you couldn't even give it a URL requiring authentication maybe?

All of this left me feeling like the devs had different goals than I did as a user.

But the current iteration seems like k8s/helm are first-class features now, so yeah, should definitely look again.

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