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JASN_DEThank you for this! I’ve been trying to find a NextCloud replacement for years. I personally can’t stand the database approach to managing files. So glad to see Sync-In can just add a system folder directly without having to import.
switched from portainer to arcane recently. much easier on the eyes and the ability to save compose projects without deploying them yet is exactly what i was looking for. one thing is weird and i should prolly make an issue for it: no horizontal scroll or word wrap function in the compose editor, so for those compose files with extensive comments like npmplus you’ll have to have open in a text editor or webpage to read to the end of lines.
Pikaman, arcane looks amazing, I ended up deciding off it though as their pull requests look like they use copilot for a lot of code for new features. Not that I personally have an issue with this but, I’ve seen enough issues where copilot or various AI agents add security vulnerabilities by mistake and they aren’t caught, so I would rather stray away from those types of projects at least until that issue becomes less common/frequent.
For something as detrimental as a management console to a program that runs as root on most systems, and would provide access to potentially high secure locations, I would not want such a program having security vulnerabilities.
dana program that runs as root
Does it have to run as root? It’s common to run Docker in rootless mode in production environments.
while docker does have a non-root installer, the default installer for docker is docker as root, containers as non-root, but since in order to manage docker as a whole it would need access to the socket, if docker has root the container by extension has root.
Even so, if docker was installed in a root-less environment then a compromised manager container would still compromise everything on that docker system, as a core requirement for these types of containers are access to the docker socket which still isn’t great but is still better than full root access.
To answer the question: No it doesn’t require it to function, but the default configuration is root, and even in rootless environment a compromise of the management container that is meant to control other containers will result in full compromise of the docker environment.
ugh well that sucks butt. i’ll be trying new alternatives tonight i guess lol
any recommendations?
Taasz/WoofI wouldn’t be exposing any management consoles to the internet either way, too much risk with something that has docker socket access.
Komodo is the best portainer alt I’ve found, I read through the Arcane info but it doesnt seem as good. Komodos editor also works great.
Those media management apps look great. Sonarr and Radarr have both annoyed me a bit recently, I’ll definitely be looking into them.
Any initial thoughts so far (if you’ve had the time to look into them)? I really want to find something that can support multi-season downloads. The *arr stacks have rejected the feature in the past and it’s been my biggest gripe lately.
The alternatives seem pretty young still. I wonder if anyone’s done a feature comparison between them…
Like one download that has multiple seasons? Sonarr doesn’t do that itself, but you can do it with a manual import.
Thanks, I do, but I have other non-technical family members. They request media via Jellyseer, which then sends the request to Sonarr.
Most of the time it’s fine, but when the show has 8 seasons? It’ll download each episode individually - some of which won’t be available/poor quality/no subtitles. There’s often a season pack with all 8 seasons in it and are more reliable subtitles/quality wise.
It’s an infrequent but annoying quirk I have to manually intervene with.
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clifI’m gonna pick up a few of these I think.
That NoteDicovery looks pretty slick. Its exactly what I was looking for a few months ago, and I’d absolutely pick it up if I didn’t just fall in love with the silverbullet’s ability to execute code embedded directly in the markdown; a feature that I expect to use almost never, but an totally smitten with.