I tried portainer once, it looked nice and had a lot of features... for which I had no use. I always found `docker compose` much easier to use, it is often just an alias and a tab away, where for portainer I would have to open a browser tab and sometimes even touch my mouse!
Otherwise good article. If you want to go rootless (which you should!), Podman is the way to go; but Docker works rootless too, with some modifications [1]. I have found Docker rootless to be reliable and robust on both Debian and Ubuntu. It also solves permissions problems because your rootless user owns files inside and outside the container, whereas with rootful setups all files outside the container are owned by root, which can be a pain.
Also, you don't need Watchtower. Automatic `docker compose pull` can be setup using standard crontab, see [2].
[1]: https://du.nkel.dev/blog/2023-12-12_mastodon-docker-rootless...
[2]: https://du.nkel.dev/blog/2023-12-12_mastodon-docker-rootless...
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