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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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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.
Enterlab_nginxas the container name.
Use nginx:latest for the image.
Click map additional ports and map port8081to80on the container.
Click the Deploy container button.
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