Learn how to - Portainer – Install Best Docker UI Manager

Learn how to – Portainer – Install Best Docker UI Manager.

Have you been looking for an open source Docker UI management tool?. Here I’ll introduce you to Portainer, which a Simple management UI for Docker containers, images, services e.t.c.

Portainer is a lightweight Docker management UI which allows you to easily manage your different Docker environments (Docker hosts or Swarm clusters). Portainer is deployed as a Docker container on any Docker engine running on Windows, macOS or Linux system.

What Portainer can do

Manage Docker images – pull, delete, Build
Quickly deploy applications from app templates
Manage containers – start, stop, kill, restart, pause, resume, remove, create
Manage networks – add, remove, edit
Manage Volumes – add, remove, manage permissions
Check docker engine events
Add custom docker registry and add authentication for docker hub
Create endpoints
Add users to manage Docker
Manage Docker swarm
Create custom container templates

Deploy Docker Web UI Administrator – Portainer

Some prerequisites are:

Docker engine running on target host – Can be local or remote
Linux, macOS or Windows docker host machine
Internet connection to download Portainer docker image

If you don’t have Docker installed and running, use our guides below:

Install Docker CE on Linux systems

Step 1: Create a directory on the host system to persist container data

To persist docker container data, let’s create a directory that will hold all Portainer data.

mkdir ~/portainer

You can specify any other directory you wish to use.

Step 2: Pull portainer docker image from docker hub

Let’s now download the image from Docker hub and store it locally on docker host.

$ docker pull portainer/portainer-ce:latest
latest: Pulling from portainer/portainer-ce
772227786281: Pull complete
96fd13befc87: Pull complete
89356dd0f288: Pull complete
9ff1f79510e7: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:b8573c23e98eb3dc3a59644c15d1c1448f5281ac7972faf996fce24b7511fda6
Status: Downloaded newer image for portainer/portainer-ce:latest
docker.io/portainer/portainer-ce:latest

Step 3: Run portainer docker container

With everything already configured, let’s start the container:

docker run -d -p 8000:8000 
  -p 9443:9443 
  --restart always 
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock 
  -v ~/portainer:/data 
  --name portainer 
  portainer/portainer-ce:latest

If you require SELinux, you will need to pass the --privileged flag to Docker when deploying Portainer.

Container ID is returned if the container is started successfully:

116fe2a36bc0515f4c424308d726479c1a0899156ada0058ccb53f1ae619393f

Check status of the container:

$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                           COMMAND        CREATED         STATUS         PORTS                                                                                            NAMES
117537d2a422   portainer/portainer-ce:latest   "/portainer"   5 seconds ago   Up 4 seconds   0.0.0.0:8000->8000/tcp, :::8000->8000/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9443->9443/tcp, :::9443->9443/tcp, 9000/tcp   portainer

By default, Portainer Server will expose the UI over port 9443 and expose a TCP tunnel server over port 8000. The latter is optional and is only required if you plan to use the Edge compute features with Edge agents.

Step 4: Access Portainer Web Interface

Access the Web dashboard on https://SERVER_IP_OR_HOSTNAME:9443/

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You’ll be asked to create an admin user and provide a password, then click create user.

You’ll then be asked to add container environment, this can be Docker, Kubernetes or Portainer Agent. For my case, I’m using it to manage local docker engine.

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You’ll be directed to Portainer dashboard where you can start managing Docker engine operations from a web UI. The default section has a summary of the number of containers, docker version, volumes, networks e.t.c.

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Clicking on the engine section will give you all the information you need to know about your Docker engine.

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Another interesting section is the App Templates. Portainer tries to make deployment of applications on Docker containers easy by providing a number of templates ready to use. This is available for both Windows and Linux. You can search and deploy container within no time.

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Ref: Portainer Official Documentation

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How to deploy docker web UI
How To manage Docker from a web interface

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Learn how to – Portainer – Install Best Docker UI Manager