Published Jun 7, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, his interests include spending hours in long RPGs, yelling at his friends in co-op games, and practicing guitar. When it comes to control planes and management UIs for Docker containers, you’ve got plenty of options to choose from. Between its sheer number of container tools, built-in CI/CD pipelines, and support for everything from Docker and Podman to K8s, Portainer is the most common option out there. But if you prefer minimalist UIs, Dockhand and Dockge are just as reliable, with the former being my favorite ever since I ran into it a few months ago. But if you’re willing to install community plugins, you can even use Cockpit to control your Docker runtime.…