Cosmos
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Oookay, soooo this might be the most controversial part, but hear me out.
Portainer is great and offers a comprehensive set of tools when it comes to container management, I've used it for many months on my main rig with an *arr stack and several other services.
The reason why I didn't want to go the Portainer route this time is simple: I'm getting old and lazy.
I don't require all of the tools Portainer is providing, and I'll already have enough to do with the experiments I want to conduct anyways, so why add weight to an otherwise pretty slim setup ?
A lot of people also talk about , which is a distribution developed by . I've used it for two weeks, in a privileged LXC container, with Plex and other services running on it and, honestly, it was an overall positive experience. But, this time, the problem is that I can't help but feel it lacked security and customisation options. I'm aware that is currently under development, and that it will address the remote access & authentication weaknesses of CasaOs, but it's nowhere near a public release state yet. I will keep an eye on it though, but for now I need a more mature solution.
Enter .
Simply put, Cosmos includes an integrated VPN and reverse proxy, 2FA and SSO authentication solutions, a more granular container management system and a larger "marketplace." To me, it looks and feels a like a beefier CasaOS.