Portainer is probably one of the longest-running pieces of software in Realm Labs. Long before the current Synology, Proxmox, Home Assistant and centralised automation setup existed, I was already using Docker on a Raspberry Pi. And almost immediately, I put…
This one looked like a Docker Engine problem. It wasn’t. The host itself had a modern Docker installation, the daemon was running normally, and the API version was current. But one application still refused to start with an error along…
Docker permissions can be confusing enough on a normal Linux machine. Add a Synology NAS, an NFS share and containers running under different user IDs, and things get interesting very quickly. This particular problem appeared when I started storing application…
Portainer had become one of those tools in Realm Labs that I used constantly but rarely thought about. It sat there managing Docker, giving me a clean web interface for containers, images, volumes, networks and stacks. Then one day I…
