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| title | description | date | lastmod | author | showHero |
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| portainer | Quick overview of portainer and setup | 2025-02-04 | 2025-02-04 | wompmacho | false |
What is Portainer?
Portainer is a lightweight, powerful container management platform that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to manage your Docker, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes environments. It essentially sits on top of your container runtime, allowing you to control complex infrastructure without needing to master the command line.
Portainer provides a very easy to understand user interface for deploying other docker containers. The great thing is, Portainer is a container itself, so it should run automatically following setup and allow you a nice gui interface for your docker environment via a web browser. I particularly love its dashboard because you get a great snapshot of your running containers, can easily restart and monitor your containers, but most importantly edit and deploy docker-compose files via the "stacks" page.
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Portainer CE is free version
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Create the volume that Portainer Server will use to store its database
docker volume create portainer_data -
Download and install the Portainer Server container
docker run -d -p 8000:8000 -p 9443:9443 --name portainer --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce:latest -
Verify the container is running with docker ps
root@server:~# docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES de5b28eb2fa9 portainer/portainer-ce:latest "/portainer" 2 weeks ago Up 9 days 0.0.0.0:8000->8000/tcp, :::8000->8000/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9443->9443/tcp, :::9443->9443/tcp portainer -
Navigate to https://HOST_IP_ADDRESS:9443 and create a user so you can log in to the Portainer web interface.