Install and Configure Portainer ​

Introduction ​

Portainer is a containerized web app for managing containerized apps. It gives you a user interface to manage your containerized applications for both local and cloud environments. This reduces the need for command line interfaces.

Deployment ​

First, create the volume that Portainer Server will use to store its database:

docker volume create portainer_data

Then, download and install the Portainer Server container:

docker run -d -p 127.0.0.1:9443:9443 --network shared-docker-network --ip 192.168.80.2 --name portainer --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce:latest

docker run -d -p 127.0.0.1:9443:9443 --network shared-docker-network --ip 192.168.80.2 --name portainer --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data registry.ipv6.docker.com/portainer/portainer-ce:latest

Portainer Server has now been installed. You can check to see whether the Portainer Server container has started by running docker ps:

root@server:~# docker ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                          COMMAND                  CREATED       STATUS       PORTS                                                                                  NAMES             
de5b28eb2fa9   portainer/portainer-ee: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

Log In ​

Because the Container is only available locally you need to set up and activate your WireGuard Connection as described in Step 13 (WireGuard) and then you can open the Portainer Web UI by typing 192.168.80.2:9443 in your browser.