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Portainer, it's great

Quan N

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Portainer, it's great

Fore us to manage our container with a web UI and not just a command line interface. We'll use a docker image, portainer/portainer-ce:latest. To install portainer we'll use the following commands, but before we do that just a disclaimer: most things will be lifted from the official Portainer install guide. This is mostly for myself and referencing steps I took so that future deployment would be simpler. 

docker volume create portainer_data
We'll create the volume that Portainer will use to store its database.
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
This command will download and install Portainer.

To confirm that portainer is running use docker ps in the terminal. It should return that Portainer is running.

dev@dev-server:~$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID	IMAGE                             COMMAND
5cf587f7163a	portainer/portainer-ce:latest	"/portainer"
An example of the printout after using docker ps.

To login into your new instance of Portainer, you would open your web browser and go to the following address.

https://localhost:9443
or
https://192.0.0.2:9443 > replace 192.0.0.2 with your machine's IP that is running Portainer.

With that done go through the setup to create an admin account and start using Portainer.