Portainer

Portainer is a user-friendly platform designed to simplify the management of containerized applications, providing a unified interface for Docker, Swarm, and Kubernetes environments. It offers ease of use, broad compatibility, and enhanced security features, making it accessible to users of all levels for efficient deployment, monitoring, and securing of containers.

• Portainer official page
• Portainer Community Edition Docker image

Since all the services related to MiniReal are containerized, Portainer can be used to manage their state by using the web UI it provides.

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Deployment

The deployment of Portainer can be done by running the following docker-compose file.

docker-compose.yml

version: "3.3"
services:
  portainer:
    image: portainer/portainer-ce:latest
    container_name: portainer
    ports:
      - 9443:9443
    volumes:
        - data:/data
        - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
    restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
  data:

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Web-UI

After Portainer is deployed, its web UI can be accessed by navigating to the deployed server ip with the port of 9443. This value can be:

https://localhost:9443 

https://[host_ip_address]:9443

Figure: Portainer UI

Note

Note that Portainer needs https access even if it's called from localhost or ip address.