How to setup Portainer on Ubuntu

Portainer is a lightweight, open-source management platform for Docker environments. It provides a user-friendly web interface to manage and monitor Docker containers, images, volumes, and networks.

Key Features:

• Easy Container Management: Start, stop, restart, and delete containers with a few clicks.
• Real-time Monitoring: View container logs, performance metrics, and resource usage.
• Image Management: Pull, push, and manage Docker images.
• Volume and Network Management: Create, edit, and delete volumes and networks.
• Multi-Environment Support: Manage multiple Docker environments from a single interface.
• Role-Based Access Control: Control user access and permissions.

Benefits:

• Simplifies Docker management for developers and sysadmins.
• Improves productivity with a intuitive web interface.
• Enhances visibility into Docker environments.
• Supports multi-cloud and on-premises deployments.

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Installation

1) Setup Docker and Docker Compose

Check this article for this step

2) Run this command:

sudo docker volume create portainer_data
sudo docker run -d -p 8150:8000 -p 9150:9000 --name=portainer -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce

It should be available at http://<your-ip-address>:9150

Useful links:

• https://portainer.io/
• https://documentation.portainer.io/v2.0/deploy/ceinstalldocker/