Install Docker and Portainer in Proxmox on a Ubuntu VM

In this video, we create a Ubuntu VM in Proxmox and install Docker and Portainer on that VM. Portainer is an amazing tool that can make creating and managing Docker containers even more enjoyable. You can easily spin up a web development environment on Docker, a Plex Media server, and much more.
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Ubuntu Server ISO: ubuntu.com/download/server
Docker Install:
curl -fsSL get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
sudo sh get-docker.sh
Portainer Install:
docker volume create portainer_data
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
Portainer App Template: github.com/Qballjos/portainer...
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00:00 - Intro
02:35 - Creating the Ubuntu VM
10:18 - Installing Docker
12:05 - Installing Portainer
12:55 - Portainer Web Interface Overview
#portainer #proxmox #docker #ubuntu

[@keith5500]

This is a really helpful video. I like how you did this in one smooth take, it makes it easy to follow which other videos tend to overlook. You earned a sub!

[@matchesmalone-of3ko]

Just wanted to say thanks for such a well scripted tutorial for someone who is just starting in home labs. It's criminal you don't have more subscribers so I've subscribed and will be checking out more content.

[@TheWoodad]

New to Portainer and Proxmox and this was hands-down the best, easy-to-follow step-by-step tutorial to get up and running. Flawless! Thank you for posting this, thumbs-up and definitely earned another sub!

[@techgeek411]

Great video, you explained everything in an easy to digest way. Thank you for the solid tutorial.

[@jardyparty]

I have been trying to get a docker/portainer going on my homelab and this video really helped. So thank you!

[@Fatihozkan19]

Cannot thank you enough! Great explanation with step-by-step guide!

[@Jahman182]

Awesome video. Following your excellent instructions I have Portainer installed.

[@jmikelong]

Thank you. Very well put together and easy to follow. Great job.

[@GeekMustHave]

Well done, you have a creditable presentation style, sounds like you are talking from the heart and know what you know. I like how you explain that you don't know everything and to try things out. Adding the link to the other source of Docker templates was a good touch. With you channel I think you find it difficult to get a higher sub level, tech videos are like that. You got me as a new sub. Keep broadcasting!!

[@MIKESALLSURE]

Excellent simple pleasant comprehensive demo. Thanks much appreciated.

[@k2mdk]

First off I want to say Thank you!!!!!!!!! and again Thank you!!!!!!!! This was exactly the tutorial I was looking for on how to get a docker/portainer setup on my proxmox server. So again I say Thank you. Just a though though if you added the sudo in front of the commands on your description it would be nicer. But on the other hand it does make you watch the video. Great Job Keep up the good work.

[@AlL-fw2cy]

Only 330 subs but man, you're very thorough! You don't have a flashy channel but you walked though everything, described everything and showed everything. Lots of other channels assume you know more or less and skips past a window or two. Great stuff!

[@credibledev]

Thanks for the feedback. I do a lot of documentation in my real job so that comes out in my videos. Still a growing channel. I appreciate your comments and glad I could help.

[@r.gregoirefogliami8981]

perfect clear & easy !! thx

[@nils1953]

thank you! worked well. Simpler than lxt container for sure.

[@Unplanted]

Great Video. What I'm doing on all Portainer installs is configuring the proper ip for the local environment. That way all ports in the container lists become clickable which us very useful for web guis.

[@AranoxxDI]

Excellent video, nice and easy to follow. Keep up the good work 🙂

[@eidodoos]

thanks bro. i follow your guide and its work flawlessly

[@minimo-studio]

great video!! I followed your video and was able to get Portainer running on Docker >> Ubuntu >> Proxmox. thanks!

[@guled493]

Thanks very much . Very easy to follow walk through. Much appreciated.

[@jwillone]

The instructions worked perfectly! Great video. Thank you!

[@credibledev]

Awesome!

[@josephwoodson6647]

Best help I have found. Easy to follow your instructions

[@andrebalsa203]

Thank you very much for this excellent and very interesting video. I followed your instructions exactly and everything worked like a charm, I now have ProxMox 7.3 with an Ubuntu 22.04 VM with Portainer in a Docker container, and that is exactly what I wanted for my home development lab. I have setup ProxMox on an AMD Rizen 7 5825U Mini PC with 32GB of RAM and a 1TB nvme, quite a powerfull setup in a very small volume and best of all, practically silent.

[@credibledev]

Great to hear!

[@hollyh00d12]

Awesome video, everything worked exactly how you said it would.

[@credibledev]

Awesome!

[@erikwagen1480]

Great guide, thanks

[@dave1383]

Excellent and thorough! Many videos I find missing some critical information. Your was thorough and well explained! Now on to installing Immich, AGAIN! 🙂I cannot seem to get it to recognize my other SSD and I need the 1TB for photos and video storage.

[@dogpile79]

Very, very helpful.

[@BIRDIE_PSEW]

So glad i found your ProxMox videos! Installed it last week and i'm loving it :) Which client to you use to connect with ssh?

[@nns353]

Excellent Excellent Excellent!! Easy to understand and follow, Thank you Sir.

[@nns353]

Can you also create how to video installing and configuring Truenas on Proxmox, thank you.

[@JaPaKa80]

thanks works great :D

[@ronm6585]

Thank you.

[@JPEO]

Thank you so much for very informative and newbie friendy tutorial.

[@credibledev]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@davidadams421]

If you do what I did and installed the Business Edition by mistake , don't forget to remove _both_ the docker image (sudo docker rm portainer) _and_ the volume (sudo docker volume rm portainer_data) before re-installing, otherwise you'll get Portainer CE restarting every 30 seconds or so! Great tutorial!

[@Kalixes]

thank you.

[@makanimike]

nice guide! I got everything up and running. Pretty sure I didn't miss anything cause I did it twice. However, it is the next step - actually deploying a container - where I fail with status code 500. I am guessing it is an issue with volumes and/or permissions?

[@fahmi8999]

Thank you for guidance. Its clear. How to add additional storage from local proxmox?

[@duncan-mcrae]

Thanks. Struggling to get moodle to work on proxmox. Had it working in docker desktop on windows/wsl, also on a rpi4...just can't get it to open in a browser when run through proxmox

[@davidperdomo9]

Hi, great video! I'm interested in knowing if it's possible to partition the VM disk as follows: /docker 36G, /root 16G, /var 16G, and /boot 1G. I'm not sure what would be considered a good practice for this. Do you have any hints? Thank you in advance!

[@syncMixer]

Thanks for the helpful video. I got to the point where I logged into Portainer in a browser and it kicked me out because I took too long. Apparently you have to do it within 5 minutes of installing Portainer. Does that mean I have to install it again?

[@408427]

im new to all this. can you make a video how to setup nfs-utils

[@MrMiniPilote]

Did you install the QEMU Agent on the ProxMox VM and just not show it? Thanks for the content. It was very clear and well done.

[@credibledev]

I did not install it

[@SigurdurBirgisson]

So I followed your guide, and my target use case was to deploy a service with docker-compose that scrapes an API of a unit and sends it off to MQTT. I was able to run it locally, but when I run it within portainer, it seems that it cannot connect to the MQTT broker, which is running inside the home assistant VM. It seems to be something with the networking of that docker-compose, which seems to ge getting the bridge networking by default, starting with 172.x. Is there anyway I can configure portainer so that any services I run through it have access to my local lan? ie the same network as the ubuntu vm has access to?

[@mtbsam68]

You totally glance over the part I need, ie setting a static IP. Do you (or someone else you know of) cover this in any better detail. I'm having troubles making any progress. Thanks.

[@credibledev]

This is very dependent on your setup such as your router. Probably why you don’t see many videos since everyone has a different environment they are working in. In general you want to choose an IP that is outside of the DHCP scope of your router or you router may have a built in option to assign an IP to a device/MAC address. When you setup a system to use a static IP you will configure the IPv4 settings on the system to use the Ip you assigned, the default gateway(router) and the subnet mask (for most home labs it will be 255.255.255.0).

[@Sakupa2]

i have a question, Where did the zsh shell come from. I'm trying to follow but I can't install docker

[@nalle475]

What’s your reasoning for the super large VM? My Portainers usually have 1 core 8G and 1024k Ram..

[@ptsolutions4229]

It seems I get 'permission denied' when trying to get access to Var/lib/docker for a Jellyfin container setup - is there an easy way to change this in VM?

[@marcosoliveira8731]

+1

[@InSaiyan-Shinobi]

Is it possible to set up my vpn in portainer I use NordVPN since there speeds can’t be matched?

[@credibledev]

I don’t have NordVPN but you should check out this thread: www.reddit.com/r/docker/comments/rew3ru/nordvpn_portainer_container/?

[@monster-zel0601]

Don't know why port 8000:8000 didn't work for me until I change it to 9000:9000