Portainer

Portainer is a lightweight management UI which allows you to easily manage your different Docker environments (Docker hosts or Swarm clusters). Portainer is meant to be as simple to deploy as it is to use. It consists of a single container that can run on any Docker engine.

Installation

docker volume create portainer_data

docker run -d -p 9000:9000 --name=portainer --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce

Usage

The UI will be exposed on port 9000 and you will be asked to create the initial administrator setting a password:

Then choose to manage the local Docker environment clicking on Get Started:

If everything works as expected, you will then be shown the Portainer home page. Click on the local environment:

In the menu, clicking on Dashboard will open a summary view of your docker engine:

Clicking on Containers will allow you to manage containers:

Then click on one running container to get the container status and menu from which you can see the log and statistics:

Exercise

Now go back to the Containers page and try to add a new container.