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
- 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
