[filmgirlcw]

I've been evaluating it alongside Cosmos and Umbrel, in addition to tools I've used before like CapRover. I like it but I don't have any strong feelings yet. I will probably do some sort of writeup after I do more evaluations and tests and play with more things but I haven't had the time to dedicate to it.

If you're already familiar with setting things up Salt/Ansible/whatever and Docker compose, you might not need something like this -- especially if you're already using a dashboard like Dashy or whatever.

The biggest thing is that these types of tools make it a lot easier to set things up -- there are inherent security risks too if you don't know what you are doing, though I argue this is a great way to learn (and it isn't a guarantee that simply knowing how to use Salt or Ansible or another infrastructure as code tool will mean any of the stuff you deploy is any more secure) and a good entryway for people who don't want to do the Synology thing.

I like these sorts of projects because even though I can do most of the stuff manually (I'd obv. automate using Ansible or something), I often don't want to if I just want to play with stuff on a box and the app store nature of these things is often preferable to finding the right docker image (or modifying it) for something. I'm lazy and I like turnkey solutions.

[sunshine-o]

> there are inherent security risks too if you don't know what you are doing

It's actually worst. Even if you know what you are doing there is some amount of work and monitoring you need to do to just to follow basic guidelines [0].

What we would actually need is a "self-hosting management" platform or tool which at least help you manage basic security around what you run.

[0] https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Docker_Securi...