If you’ve been following my articles on self-hosted services, you may already be familiar with containers. With their solid isolation provisions, easy-to-deploy nature, and (typically) low resource ...

Docker has long been the go-to containerization tool for self-host enthusiasts, but Podman has emerged as a powerful, feature-rich alternative that's rapidly gaining ground. I've been using it for ...

Portainer has been my favorite container management platform for some time. It offers every feature I need to make working with containers a breeze. Portainer was originally built for Docker, and with ...

Docker uses a persistent background service, dockerd, to manage container lifecycles. The CLI communicates with this daemon, which supervises container creation, networking, and resource allocation.