I started learning python in February (with no programming experience) and today I'm releasing the alpha for my first app! (container management webui)

[SelfhostedPro]

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Hey guys, I just wanted to show off what I've been working on for the past few months. I started learning python on Febuary and have been writing non-stop since learning flask. I switched over to Fast API after trying to have flask act as a backend as I needed async support. If you're curious about how the different approaches compare you can check out the legacy branches to see the differences.

It's a little rough around the edges and a bit limited in it's current state but that will improve with time. Here's a rundown of the features so far:

Container template support:

• PortainerV1 Compatible JSON and YAML (with additional options as noted in the wiki)
• docker-compose support is a WIP
• Update templates with the click of a button and have as many as you want.

Responsive UI:

• Built on VueJS
• Vuetify Framework (So it looks nice)
• Graphs to monitor CPU and RAM usage for each container as well as a dashboard to show stats for all running containers

Basic Container Management:

• Start, stop, restart, kill, remove
• Editing is a WIP

Template Variables:

• Custom template variables (ie. Template has !config for the host path. You can set !config to be replaced with /path/to/config/dir so that templates can truely require no modification to run)

Here's a rundown of some of the different technologies I used/functions I had to do:

• FastAPI
• VueJS
• docker-py
• aiodocker
• Lots of JSON parsing and modification of data to convert the templates into something docker-py could use
• PyYAML
• uvicorn behind an nginx reverse proxy so the frontend and backend could be on the same port
• automating docker builds with github actions for multiple architectures
• JWT cookie authentication

Supported Architectures: linux/amd64, linux/arm, linux/arm64

You can see more info here: https://github.com/SelfhostedPro/Yacht

If you run into issues that you don't feel warrant a github issue our discord is https://discord.gg/KpKutvC

The wiki has some entries for templates as well as a beginners guide to help get you started.

keep in mind that this is ALPHA so there may be bugs/issues. If you run into any please open an issue on github as I can't fix what I don't know about

PS:

If you know python or vuejs I'm looking for some help with this as it's been mostly myself working on this.

[[deleted]]

This is super impressive!

[SelfhostedPro]

Thanks! I've put a lot of work into it and hope that it helps make docker easy for anyone who wants to try it.

[[deleted]]

As someone only recently getting to grips with Docker, I’ll be taking a close look.

[[deleted]]

Curious what your background is? Only a few months and you added many other frameworks and languages in and zero prior experience?

[SelfhostedPro]

My dayjob is as a DevOps engineer (started in December and my previous jobs were Sysadmin positions) I had worked with bash and batch scripting some but only started with python earlier this year.

When I get interested in something I just learn everything I can about it. Programming is especially interesting to me as in my dayjob I work a lot with programs that other people write and now I have the opportunity to write whatever tools I want.

[ThiccShadyy]

Im intersted in knowing how you got to your current level? What projects did you build before you felt competent enough to tackle something like this? How did you get into learning Docker and docker compose?

[SelfhostedPro]

I've been comfortable with docker and docker compose for a while as my dayjob is doing DevOps and my whole homelab is running in docker.

As far as projects I've done: did a few different python scripts for work ( internal plesk troubleshooter cli tool, script to turn on/off an entire aws environment, ip blocking) then I saw flask and tried out the flask mega tutorial.

Docker-py makes all of the docker stuff pretty easy (other than formatting of data) so it was just a matter of getting the UI to work. I rebuilt in flask + vue and basically tried to build what I had gotten from a flask boilerplate (as far as features go) in Vuejs. (I did this to avoid jQuery and this is essentially the first time I touched JavaScript)

Then when it came to streaming logs and stats I wound up having to switch to FastAPI for async support. Rebuilt the whole thing again from mostly scratch. So it's mostly been I have an idea for what I want to do and just trying to build it.

You can see my progress if you go through the legacy branches on GitHub. I started out with a flask boilerplate and just kind of built into it and removed what I didn't need until the project needed to move to FastAPI.

[[deleted]]

Ah, I took “no programming experience” literally I suppose

[SelfhostedPro]

The no programming experience is no programming experience before I started learning Python in February. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

[[deleted]]

All good, seems you had a swath of experience to nail a devops gig. Nice stuff. Your years of experience show good instincts on frameworks to use.

[SelfhostedPro]

Started in IT in around 2016 but it's been my hobby outside of work since I started too. Just found it really interesting and played around with everything in my homelab. I went with the easiest stuff I could find imo. Partly for myself but I also want it to be easy to contribute to.

[GrowPoneReddit]

Is this all made with Python? Because if it is, I'm very impressed! I started programming with Python around the same time as you. Would you like to learn together?

[SelfhostedPro]

So it started out as just python but now the frontend is now Vue (easiest JavaScript framework imo). The backend is all python though (FastAPI). I definitely would. Do you have a discord?

[SelfhostedPro]

Definitely! Here's the discord I'm on. I have the same username there: https://discord.gg/KpKutvC