Installing Portainer — Docker Management UI

Portainer is a browser-based Docker management interface. It lets you manage containers, images, volumes, and networks without using the command line.

Install Portainer

# Create the volume for Portainer data:
docker volume create portainer_data

# Run Portainer:
docker run -d   -p 8000:8000   -p 9443:9443   --name portainer   --restart=always   -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock   -v portainer_data:/data   portainer/portainer-ce:latest

Allow Through Firewall

ufw allow 9443

Access Portainer

Open https://YOUR_SERVER_IP:9443 in your browser. On first visit, you will be prompted to create an admin username and password.

Key Features

• Containers: Start, stop, restart, view logs, exec into shell, view stats
• Images: Pull new images, remove unused images
• Volumes: Create and manage persistent volumes
• Networks: Create and inspect Docker networks
• Stacks: Deploy Docker Compose files via the UI (the Stacks feature)
• Environments: Connect Portainer to remote Docker hosts or Swarm clusters

Update Portainer

docker pull portainer/portainer-ce:latest
docker stop portainer && docker rm portainer
# Re-run the install command above