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Ditching Portainer for Dockge: What the Abstraction Hides Is the Most Expensive Part

2026-05-29T10:00:00+09:00

Portainer Really Is Showing Its Age

I love tinkering with Raspberry Pis. I had a Pi 4B that I hacked on for years.

Before GPU prices went through the roof last year, I bought a Pi 5 online and had a blast with it. For the container layer, I used Portainer just like I did on the 4B.

Portainer is great when you’re starting out: it has a UI, clickable buttons, one-click stack deployment, and you don’t need to memorize docker compose commands just to change an environment variable. But the longer you use it, the more small annoyances keep recurring.

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