Container Management

Information

This solution ships with Portainer - if you want to convert this to use minikube or some other solution then please do what you want!

Portainer

• Portainer is just a web UI for managing your containers on a remote server (like on a linux server or a headless raspberry pi).
• Portainer CE is free to use and is a great alternative when docker desktop isn't available due to a remote system being used.
• It will look at your current running containers on your docker host and basically be exactly like Docker Desktop on a remote machine.

• Just Portainer Commands
• Portainer is a web client for managing your docker host containers, images, volumes, and networking, and much more.

Type	Command
Start	docker compose up portainer -d
Shutdown	docker compose down portainer

Dashboard

Containers

• Once started, Portainer should be hit from this url

	URL
Non-SSL	http://localhost:9000
SSL (unsecured without a cert)	https://localhost:49443
Image	portainer/portainer-ce

Portainer Docker Compose Example

services:
  ### Container management Web UI
  portainer:
    container_name: ${PORTAINER_CONTAINER_NAME}
    image: portainer/portainer-ce:latest
    env_file:
      - ./.env
      - ../../.env
    ports:
      - ${PORTAINER_HOST_PORT}:9000 # webui for portainer (http)
      - ${PORTAINER_HOST_PORT_SSL}:9443 # webui for portainer (https)
    volumes:
      - ${DEFAULT_CONTAINER_DATA_LOCATION}/Portainer:/data
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
      - ${DEFAULT_CONTAINER_DATA_LOCATION}/ssl:/ssl
    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.${PORTAINER_CONTAINER_NAME}.rule=Host(`${PORTAINER_CONTAINER_NAME}.${PROJECT_HOSTNAME}`)"
      - "traefik.http.routers.${PORTAINER_CONTAINER_NAME}.entrypoints=https"
      - "traefik.http.routers.${PORTAINER_CONTAINER_NAME}.tls=true"
      - "traefik.http.services.${PORTAINER_CONTAINER_NAME}.loadbalancer.server.port=${PORTAINER_HOST_PORT}"
      ## Middlewares
      ###### PORTAINER HAS OAUTH BUILT IN SO THIS ISN'T NEEDED - https://docs.goauthentik.io/integrations/services/portainer/
      # - ${PORTAINER_AUTHENTIK_MIDDLEWARE:-}
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - homelab
    profiles:
      - all
      - portainer

Portainer Example .env file

PORTAINER_CONTAINER_NAME="portainer"
PORTAINER_HOST_PORT="9000"
PORTAINER_HOST_PORT_SSL="49443"