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    OpsAI Sentinel (Beta): The AI Panel Guard That Watches, Not Acts — Until You Say So

    OpsAI Sentinel (Beta) We just shipped OpsAI Sentinel, and we want to be upfront about what it is before anything else: it's a read-only watcher by default. A human stays in control. Nothing changes on your server unless you've explicitly raised the permission level or clicked an approval button...
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    OpsAI: running Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI and Cursor Agent inside the panel

    OpsAI: an AI desktop built into the panel OpsAI is a windowed AI desktop that lives inside the Panelica panel itself: a terminal running a coding agent as an isolated system user, a live browser window the agent can drive, a Telegram bridge so you can reach it from your phone, and 19 built-in...
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    Panelica MCP Server — complete guide: setup for every client, what the assistant can do, scopes, examples, troubleshooting

    Panelica MCP Server — complete guide The Panelica MCP Server (package panelica-mcp) is an open-source Model Context Protocol server that turns your Panelica panel into a set of tools an AI assistant can call directly — list and create accounts, provision domains, manage DNS, issue SSL...
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    Which permissions should you give an AI assistant? (scope cheat-sheet)

    Don't hand out *:* by default With the MCP server and OpsAI both able to act on your panel now, it's worth talking about API key scoping. The key picker has 50 scopes with live search and nothing preselected on purpose — you're supposed to think about what you're granting. General rule Start...
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    OpsAI on Telegram: your server now answers your messages

    Talk to your server from your phone OpsAI can now run through Telegram. Instead of opening the panel every time you want to check something or kick off a task, you message a Telegram group and OpsAI answers there, in Telegram-formatted replies. How it works OpsAI runs on your desktop and...
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    How to: Connect Claude Code to your Panelica server in 60 seconds

    Get Claude Code talking to your panel Quick walkthrough for anyone who wants to try the Panelica MCP server with Claude Code specifically. No prior MCP experience needed. Step 1 — Create an API key In your panel, go to Developer → API and create a new key. You'll see a scope picker with 50...
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    Show & Tell: I asked Claude to create a site and issue SSL — full transcript

    Let Claude drive the panel for a bit Been playing with the Panelica MCP server since it dropped and wanted to share a real session instead of just describing it. This is with Claude Code connected via MCP, API key scoped to domains + SSL only. What I asked "Create a domain called...
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    Panelica MCP Server 0.5.1: connect Claude, Cursor, Codex and Gemini to your panel

    Panelica MCP Server 0.5.1 is here We just shipped the Panelica MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. If you've been wanting to point an AI assistant at your panel and have it actually do things instead of just talking about them, this is for you: create a domain, issue an SSL certificate, add a...
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    How to Size and Sell Docker App Hosting for Customers (One-Click Apps, Container Isolation, Access)

    How to Size and Sell Docker App Hosting for Customers This is the practical follow-up to our announcement about selling Docker app hosting through PNLCS. If you're setting up a self-hosted app hosting or one-click Docker container hosting product for customers — on Panelica, through PNLCS, or...
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    Sell Docker App Hosting Through PNLCS — Now End to End

    Sell Docker App Hosting Through PNLCS — Now End to End Panelica has been able to run Docker containers for a while now — app templates, compose stacks, per-account isolation. What has been missing is a straightforward way to actually sell that to customers without hand-rolling your own...
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    Panelica Docker Templates are now open source — contribute an app with a single JSON file

    Docker Templates are now open source Our catalog of Docker app templates for Panelica's Docker Manager is now public on GitHub, MIT licensed, and open for contributions: https://github.com/Panelica/docker-templates What this actually means Every app you see in Docker Manager -> App Store is...
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    Volumes vs bind mounts on a hosting server, and the UID problem

    Both put data outside the container. They fail differently, and on a hosting server the difference matters more than usual. Named volumes docker run -v appdata:/var/lib/app myimage Docker manages the storage. Portable, easy to back up as a unit, and the container's own user owns the contents...
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    Running PHP 5.6 to 7.4 on a modern kernel without CloudLinux

    The problem is familiar to anyone maintaining old client sites: the code needs PHP 5.6 or 7.x, the distribution stopped packaging it years ago, and compiling it against a modern OpenSSL is an afternoon you will never get back. Containers solve this cleanly because the old PHP brings its own...
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    Docker networks — when the default bridge stops being good enough

    Most people never create a network and mostly get away with it. Here is where that stops working. The default bridge has no DNS Containers on the default bridge network cannot resolve each other by name. On a user-defined network they can, and that single difference is why almost every Compose...
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    Knowing when a newer image exists — and when you should not pull it

    Checking is easy. Deciding is the part worth talking about. Checking # what you have docker image inspect myimage:tag --format '{{.Id}} {{.Created}}' # what the registry has now docker pull myimage:tag If the pull reports "Image is up to date", nothing changed. If it downloads layers, the...
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    Pulling from private registries — GHCR, Docker Hub rate limits and stored credentials

    Two things eventually force you to deal with registry credentials: Docker Hub's anonymous pull limits, and your own private images. The rate limit problem Anonymous pulls are counted per IP. On a VPS that is fine until it is not — a redeploy loop, or a shared NAT address, and suddenly pulls...
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    What is actually worth self-hosting on a small VPS — with real memory numbers

    Every "50 apps to self-host" list ignores the only question that matters on a 4 GB box: what does it cost to keep running. Here are the floors I work from, taken from the template catalogue rather than from marketing pages. Comfortable on a small server (128–256 MB each) Uptime Kuma for...
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    Cloning a running stack for staging without touching production

    Testing an upgrade against production because staging is "basically the same" is how weekends get ruined. Cloning a container properly takes a few minutes and gives you a real copy. What has to be copied, and what must not be Copy: the image and tag, the environment, the volume data, the...
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    Do you still need Portainer if your panel already manages Docker?

    Fair question and the answer is not automatic. It depends on what you use Portainer for, and most people use it for one of three things. If you use it as a container list with buttons — start, stop, restart, view logs, exec a shell — then a panel with container management replaces it outright...
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    Ready-made templates vs writing your own compose file — when is each right?

    Both are correct in different situations, and the argument only gets heated because people compare them on the wrong axis. A template is right when the app is a commodity to you. You want Uptime Kuma, you do not care how Uptime Kuma is packaged, and you will never edit its internals. The value...
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