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[1400.92 --> 1401.88] Portainer was pretty neat.
[1401.94 --> 1403.46] Now, if you're not familiar with Portainer,
[1403.62 --> 1407.20] it is a web UI that sits on top of,
[1407.24 --> 1407.94] it runs in Docker,
[1408.12 --> 1409.78] and it sits on top of your Docker host,
[1409.86 --> 1412.12] or it can connect to a remote Docker system
[1412.12 --> 1414.18] either via the Docker API
[1414.18 --> 1416.06] or their Portainer agent,
[1416.46 --> 1418.76] or just through direct Azure integration,
[1418.76 --> 1420.24] if that's your choice.
[1420.98 --> 1424.56] And then what you get is a management GUI
[1424.56 --> 1426.14] that's pretty sophisticated.
[1426.62 --> 1430.44] And it substitutes some common Docker parlances
[1430.44 --> 1433.06] like Docker compose files for Portainer stacks
[1433.06 --> 1435.04] and things like that.
[1435.04 --> 1437.60] And it gives you a way to visualize
[1437.60 --> 1440.74] everything going on Docker-wise on your system.
[1441.12 --> 1443.02] And you can look at multiple systems.
[1443.14 --> 1444.24] So that's one thing that's kind of nice
[1444.24 --> 1446.02] is you can install Portainer like I did
[1446.02 --> 1447.26] to my compute module four
[1447.26 --> 1449.46] on my OpenSeus Dumbleweed install.
[1449.90 --> 1453.38] And then I added other remote Docker hosts
[1453.38 --> 1454.72] to that Portainer instance.
[1454.88 --> 1455.92] And that's kind of nice, right?
[1455.98 --> 1456.54] I like that.
[1457.38 --> 1462.64] And I tried really hard to love it
[1462.64 --> 1463.30] because I thought,
[1463.80 --> 1464.98] boy, wouldn't it be neat
[1464.98 --> 1467.64] that to just bring all of the JB systems
[1467.64 --> 1471.64] into one Portainer management instance
[1471.64 --> 1474.22] and keep tabs on all of them?
[1474.26 --> 1474.80] Because in total,
[1475.14 --> 1475.82] I mean, I don't know,
[1475.90 --> 1477.80] 30, 40 containers of different applications
[1477.80 --> 1478.96] that we're running.
[1479.88 --> 1482.86] I would say 70% of those
[1482.86 --> 1485.38] are for behind-the-scenes software
[1485.38 --> 1487.18] that we use to produce the shows.
[1487.42 --> 1488.66] Maybe 60%.
[1488.66 --> 1493.56] And I don't know how diligent we are
[1493.56 --> 1496.74] about staying on top of those updates.
[1496.94 --> 1499.06] We are good about the public-facing stuff,
[1499.10 --> 1501.04] but not so good about the internal stuff.
[1501.04 --> 1502.62] And so I kind of like the idea
[1502.62 --> 1503.56] of just bringing it all under
[1503.56 --> 1505.42] one management roof.
[1506.62 --> 1508.30] But man, you know, Alex,
[1508.54 --> 1509.14] and I don't know,
[1509.48 --> 1510.64] I know you don't have the love
[1510.64 --> 1511.94] for Portainer either,
[1512.00 --> 1514.44] but I found it frustrating
[1514.44 --> 1515.80] and tedious to use.
[1516.38 --> 1517.42] You know, I have to,
[1517.46 --> 1518.48] say on my remote systems,
[1518.54 --> 1519.94] I have to enable Docker Swarm.
[1520.30 --> 1521.62] I have to install their agent.
[1521.80 --> 1522.66] You have to have Docker
[1522.66 --> 1523.74] of a certain version.
[1523.94 --> 1525.00] So immediately that means
[1525.00 --> 1526.30] some rail boxes are out.
[1526.30 --> 1529.26] And I found the entire thing
[1529.26 --> 1532.72] to just be about 15 layers of lacquer
[1532.72 --> 1534.22] on top of something
[1534.22 --> 1538.00] that I just didn't need anything.
[1538.18 --> 1539.92] It's like it was too complicated
[1539.92 --> 1540.88] for what I need
[1540.88 --> 1542.40] and also too restrictive
[1542.40 --> 1543.34] at the same time.
[1543.46 --> 1545.46] And it felt like a lot of fuss
[1545.46 --> 1546.54] to get it up and going.
[1546.76 --> 1548.90] And I don't really see it scaling out
[1548.90 --> 1549.76] itself long-term
[1549.76 --> 1550.46] without getting to like
[1550.46 --> 1552.52] some paid version of Portainer,
[1552.70 --> 1554.46] which I really have zero interest in doing.
[1554.46 --> 1555.86] And so I found myself
[1555.86 --> 1557.00] sort of hitting the walls
[1557.00 --> 1557.56] of using it
[1557.56 --> 1558.86] within the first couple of days.
[1559.00 --> 1560.58] And I felt bad
[1560.58 --> 1563.06] because we've gotten
[1563.06 --> 1564.16] so many positive emails
[1564.16 --> 1565.78] from the audience about it.
[1565.98 --> 1567.18] I really wanted to love it.
[1567.20 --> 1568.12] And I thought I'd figured out
[1568.12 --> 1569.00] my angle on it.
[1569.18 --> 1570.22] And at the end of it,
[1570.24 --> 1570.52] I thought,
[1570.58 --> 1571.82] I'm not going to use this.
[1572.08 --> 1573.44] I just don't like it.
[1573.58 --> 1574.84] And I'm curious to know
[1574.84 --> 1576.70] why it didn't stick for you.
[1577.42 --> 1578.74] Well, they do offer a paid service.
[1579.52 --> 1580.70] You know, their business model
[1580.70 --> 1581.44] from the beginning
[1581.44 --> 1584.38] has been their community edition.
[1584.90 --> 1586.02] Is available for free.
[1586.16 --> 1587.54] And then you have a business edition as well,
[1587.56 --> 1589.22] which probably has extra Chrome