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Settebello
Mar 20, 2025

Self Hosting: Portainer Server Installation

It is easy to become quickly overwhelmed as you start installing different application on your Home Lab. It is for this reason that I try to install as much Docker container as possible. Installation and updates are a lot easier to do. This article summarize how to quickly install the software Portainer. This software is used to manage and create docker containers and docker compose as well.

Prerequisite

  1. Installing Ubuntu Server
  2. Installing Docker on Linux Server

Installation

Open a Terminal session and write the following command to make sure that Docker is running:

sudo systemctl status docker

You should get a screen with the docker.service as "running". To get back to command line do CTRL+C

Then, create the volume that Portainer Server will use to store its database:

sudo docker volume create portainer_data

You are now ready for the on-liner installation:

sudo 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

To validate the installer, prompt the following command:

sudo docker ps

You should see Portainer's container running.

To access Portainer Server, go to the following adress: localhost:9443

Et voila!

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