Portainer

Index

Introduction

  • A lightweight management UI which allows you to easily manage your different Docker environments (Docker hosts / Swarm Clusters)
  • Consists of a single container that can run on any Docker engine
  • Works with Kubernets, Docker, Docker Swarm and Azure ACI

Features

  1. The Authentication
  • Internal - managing users and stores user data in Portainer data folder
  • LDAP - the users are manages by an external LDAP server
  • OAuth - requires a paid extension

Features

2. Manage multiple endpoints

  • The UI in Portainer can be used to manage multiple Docker Swarm clusters (called endpoints)

Features

2. Manage multiple endpoints

Features

3. The template

  • User can use Portainer templates or define them themselves

Features

4. View Docker resources

  • User can interact, view and manage Docker Swarm resources
  • From the web interface:

 

 

 

 

- possible to search all the services

   deployed within the given cluster

- modify their configuration

- start and stop the services

Features

5. Perform actions on containers

  • Can start, stop, kill, restart, pause, resume and remove containers
  • View the logs of the container
  • Inspect the configurations of the container
  • View the container resources usage, such as CPU usage and Memory usage

Features

5. Perform actions on containers

Why use portainer

  • Compact and lightweight
  • Simple to use
  • Can use for monitoring ad building Docker applications
  • Can see the state of Docker environments in detail
  • Provide us with the capability to manage images, networks and volumes
  • Can deploy it easily
  • Easy to monitoring the complete Docker-container environment

What Portainer can do?

  • Manage Docker images - pull, delete, build
  • Quick 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
  • Create endpoints
  • Add users to manage Docker
  • Create custom container templates

companies use portainer

References

Portainer.io

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Portainer.io

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