I added autonomous AI agents to my self-hosted Docker platform — here's what Level 1 vs Level 2 autonomy actually means

Managing a Docker ecosystem manually doesn't scale. Not because the tools are bad — Docker is fine, Compose is fine — but because the cognitive load of watching six services across multiple hosts adds up fast. You miss things. A container dies at 3am. A CVE sits unactioned for two weeks because you were heads-down on something else. An SSL cert expires because the renewal check was a cron job you forgot about. I've been building a self-hosted Docker management platform for the past few months....