🏗️ Portainer Setup

Portainer is like having a fancy touchscreen interface for your containers instead of jabbing around blindly in the CLI. If you love clicking shiny buttons instead of typing long commands — Portainer is your new best friend.

🌐 Portainer Website
📄 Official Docs

🐳 Requirements

Docker installed and running on your system.
Internet (so you can actually pull images instead of yelling at the screen).

🚀 Quick Start

1️⃣ Pull the Portainer Image

docker pull portainer/portainer-ce

Because what’s Docker without pulling yet another container you’ll forget to clean up later? 😈

2️⃣ Create a Docker Volume (optional but recommended)

docker volume create portainer_data

This volume saves your Portainer data — like your precious container settings and forgotten stacks — even after you rage quit and restart your server.

3️⃣ Run Portainer

docker run -d
  -p 8000:8000            # Agent port (for connecting agents — you can ignore if not using)
  -p 9443:9443             # Web UI (secure access)
  --name=portainer
  --restart=always
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
  -v portainer_data:/data
  portainer/portainer-ce:latest

⚠️ If you accidentally typo the ports, don’t worry — you’ll just spend 3 hours figuring out why it “doesn’t work”.

🌐 Accessing Portainer

Once running, open your browser and head to:

https://localhost:9443

If it doesn’t load, double-check ports, firewall, or whether you accidentally started Minecraft instead.

The first time you open Portainer, you’ll be asked to create an admin user. Choose wisely — this is your new kingdom.
Pick Local when asked which environment to manage. This connects directly to your local Docker engine, no complicated rituals needed.
Enjoy your GUI container empire! 👑

🗑️ To Stop and Remove Portainer

docker stop portainer

docker rm portainer

Perfect for when you want to “start fresh” after totally messing up your stack for the tenth time. 💀

💬 Final Thoughts

Why fight with YAML files and endless docker ps when you can just click around like you’re playing a city builder game?

Portainer is here to help you manage containers without needing to remember every flag, so you can spend more time actually building cool things — or watching Netflix while pretending to “work on the server”.