There are a few things I want to host that are very firmly “docker only” images. I get docker, I understand why it exists but I can’t get into it. I have had docker and portainer running in the past but found it cumbersome (portainer updates were a minor annoyance, and updating docker images seemed “wrong”) but I can’t get away from it.

I happened across CasaOS earlier which sort of looked like something that would help, then looked at alternatives to this and saw someone suggest Cosmo which says it needs installing on docker so I got confused again!

Is there anything that’s truly worth using to make installing/managing/updating docker images simple or is it just more complicated in the long run?

For the record I do have ESXi and countless VMs, I find spinning up a VM simple and it suffices for all my needs apart from a couple of specific things (like a Google Photos replacement). I don’t really want to learn docker just to use Immich!