andreaspano blog: Install Portainer

Andrea Spano

What is Portainer

Portainer is a lightweight management user interface that allows you to easily manage your Docker environments through a web interface.

Portainer provides multiple options to interface with images and containers. Managing images and containers may become easier with a good user interface for Docker.

This article briefly describes how to install Portainer on you Ubuntu system assuming that your docker engine is already up and running

A more extensive range of information about Portainer can be found at https://www.portainer.io/.

You can accomplish Portainer installation by downloading Portainer image from the DockerHub using the docker pull command


sudo docker pull portainer/portainer

Once the image is downloaded you can start Portainer with


sudo docker run -p 9000:9000 -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock --name portainer portainer/portainer

Assuming everything worked correctly, when pointing at: ip-addess:9000, after setting up password for admin user, you should see something like:

In case of trouble, just use the old restart trick


sudo docker container restart portainer

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Spano (2020, Sept. 23). andreaspano blog: Install Portainer. Retrieved from https://andreaspano.github.io/posts/2020-09-22-install-portainer/

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@misc{spano2020install,
  author = {Spano, Andrea},
  title = {andreaspano blog: Install Portainer},
  url = {https://andreaspano.github.io/posts/2020-09-22-install-portainer/},
  year = {2020}
}