Managing Docker with Portainer

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Managing Docker with Portainer

You manage containers for clients on several Docker servers. But managing the hosts has become a bit of a pain. Looking for an all-in-one tool you discover Portainer, and decide to test it out by deploying it to one of your hosts.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 22, 2025

Duration

30m

Challenge

Create a Volume
Create a volume for Portainers data:
```
docker volume create portainer_data
```

Challenge

Create Portainer

Create the Portainers container:

docker container run -d --name portainer -p 8080:9000 
--restart=always 
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock 
-v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer

Challenge

Log into Portainer and Create a Container

Login into <LAB_IP>:8080. Create your user account.
Click on local.
Click on containers.
Click the Add container button.
Enter lab_nginx as the container name.
Use nginx:latest for the image.
Click map additional ports and map port 8081 to 80 on the container.
Click the Deploy container button.

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