Pi-Hosted : Raspberry Pi 4 Server Setup, Docker Install, Portainer Install, Shell In A Box Part 1

Starting a New Series called Pi-Hosted which will be covering steps on how to turn your raspberry pi to a home server, today we will be covering Docker installation, portainer, and shellinabox. thanks for the view!
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0:00 Introduction
2:18 Flash RPi OS
4:24 Update Raspberry Pi OS
5:46 Docker Explained
6:32 Install Docker
8:38 Install Portainer
9:11 Portainer Settings
10:51 App Templates
11:51 Shell In A Box Install
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[@froid_san]

Finally a series I've been waiting for. I've been studying to make my own raspi home server and having a struggle safely deploying it online without compromising my home network. Hope you delve into this and topics about wireguard or reverse proxy.

[@markosopcic5187]

Gonna follow this series as much as I can! I just recently setup my RPI 4 with a qbittorrent server and a pihole dns server and connected a 3TB drive to it. Finding out about portainer and shellinabox makes life already so much easier. Can't wait to see what more you got up your sleeve!

[@NovaspiritTech]

your the first person to mention about shellinabox!! isn't it great!?!!

[@Ez4RealBWDK]

Litterly bought a new raspberry yesterday, then I stumble across this, amazing work! Will definitely be following!

[@fuba44]

Yes! Been looking for this exact series. Thank you so much.

[@WPGinfo]

Thnx, and nice timing ;D! I'm setting up a server / servers to run in docker to handle a few things. So this series should be very helpful. Can't wait to see what is next!

[@alexfernandesportrai]

thanks Don. It took me a wile to figure things out. I watched all the parts many times before I got things working, but its one of the best guides for Docker on raspberry Pi. I am a newbie with very basic knowledge, but your detailed explanations were very helpful.

[@Pariah902]

looking forward to the next episodes in the series, awesome stuff!

[@s.parojcic1772]

Thanks! You are my go to for anything RPI related.

[@peterjackson6228]

I've been waiting for this type of video for ages :-) I followed along and got this all nicely setup. Looking forward to the followiing parts so that I can follow along and learn :-)

[@secretreleases]

Awesome stuff! Will follow this series for sure!

[@terrygilligan790]

Great! clear and concise video. Love the presentation. Thank you so much.

[@yashaskm11]

What a coincidence ! , Even I was inspired by that reddit post and decided to start hosting on pi !!, will be following the videos and eagerly waiting for upcoming videos .

[@JDMG]

I've been contemplating building a pi server or a few in the near future, will be following this series closely :)

[@NovaspiritTech]

awesome! episode 2 is already recorded and working on episode 3 right now =) i'm very happy about this series

[@JDMG]

@@NovaspiritTech Can't wait :)

[@LizzyTheLizard]

@@NovaspiritTech epic cant wait

[@---nw9qu]

Great video and series. Learned several things. Looking forward to more videos.

[@AtindriyaDas]

Thanks very much for this series!

[@spuds7677]

Cool series. I plan to follow some steps and see what I can come up with.

[@uMalice]

awesome series! I can't wait to get into this.

[@U8uxa8SP]

This looks like a great project, I will certainly follow it thanks.

[@abdullashaban2747]

really appreciate all this effort, wonderful, thanks

[@kevinhughes9801]

Great series look forward to seeing vids

[@kiranm5419]

Best series 👍👍👍

[@hapigandhi]

Awsome, I Will follow this series

[@StephanLiebenberg]

This comes at the best time, I just got my first pi, and really want to see how I can max it out

[@Bishwajit1992]

This series is so awesome. I will be trying all the applications in the video series on my raspberrypi🤩😍😍😍

[@kusalleelarathna4591]

Great series will be help my future work

[@shulker_khan9441]

This is great. I look forward to the series! "Hack till it hurts" oo I feel the pain. 😳😅

[@CristianHeredia0]

Looking forward to this series. I recommend you use "docker-compose up -d --build" instead of the bash scripts

[@sirthugbert5654]

Awesome video! Thanks!

[@KonaDogTV]

Grandpa Bob here in Orlando ! You Rock! your Video is awesome. Very easy to follow ! thanks Good Job 5 Stars ! thanks ..I see a light at the end of the tunnel and for once it's not a train !

[@darrensmith016]

I’ve done this a couple times but always used a 64bit Ubuntu Server. I’ve found it’s so much better than the 32bit OS Raspberry Pi OS.

[@fishtailfred8686]

That script of yours for installing portainer saved my bacon, thank you.

[@Lunolux]

this look insane, nice video

[@ryanfortner1868]

Great idea!

[@KonaDogTV]

Thanks!

[@davetherave4328]

Had a go at this with the new Pi Zero 2 quad core over clocked to 1.2ghz and is running well with these apps "Shell-in-a-box","Portainer","Nginx Proxy manager","Speed-Test Tracker","Transmission Vpn","DeeMix","JellyFin","Woogle "and "Grocy". So far runs well for the power of these boards stream music and flim fine and also plan to ad pi-hole and add a couple of more apps if the ram on these small SBC can handle it. Hooked up to a 160GB SSD and 250GB SSD. Very impressed with the new Pi Zero 2 now its quad core ,this is a great little lower powered server unit ,perfect for people with cost concerns on running a home server. ...My next plan is to run it of renewable energy , couple of battery bank and solar charger. I will see how it goes.

[@seanmchughnt]

Fantastic!

[@beans6186]

this is by far the best raspberry pi series in existence. thank you so much! I have one question: I opted for a wireless connection when i first started, but now I want to use ethernet. I don't know how to configure this with a headless install. plugging in an ethernet cable doesn't automatically switch the connection to ethernet. What can I do?

[@ThirstyBadgerCA]

great series. I'd love to see a Wordpress episode that sets up Wordpress / Redis / Postfix on the pi. similar to easyengine config but running on the PI.

[@MehmetKollayan]

Thanks, good job.

[@gl5638]

This is so good!! Looking forward to the second part. Did u consider installing OMV5 and docker/portainer on top of that ?? So you can have an NAS manager as well. Also do all of the apps run on 32 bit? There is no requirements for 64bit ??

[@stayupthetree]

Ehhh no major worries about 32bit vs 64bit. If you know what a Virtual Machine in, think of a container as a very very tiny Virtual Machine. Each container has a base(Operating System) that is selected by the maintainer of the container. Ubuntu, Debian, Alpine, are all possible bases and Alpine is popular for having a smaller footprint. So essentialy with each container you are running a very small version of the OS and only the files needed to run the application. Edit: I missed that he used a 32bit OS, that could complicate things, but I don't think he cares.

[@nomadelog]

Wow, very cool stuff... ;-)

[@matthulett]

I use my pie for plex. I want to try and do this project with you great start!

[@Danny-jj3up]

nice video :)

[@Garageland16]

I wonder if you could have a similar setup with ESXI on rpi and a few vms for hosting services.

[@michaelcooper5490]

Hello Don, This is a perfect series actually. But I have a question, I would like to build a swarm using this what considerations do I need to deploy master and 5 workers? I would expect that preparing this type of install would require a few extra steps. Thank you for your hard work this is awesome Thank you!!!

[@malcolmanderson6735]

After a long journey through static ips not connecting to the internet, I'm ready to start following along. #homelab

[@jaxxarmstrong]

I'm about to invest in the hardware needed and I'm going to follow this series closely. However, I'm a bit foggy what hardware exactly is needed. Do I buy the regular Rpi 4B+ and a compute board or just a compute board and a IO board to that, please?

[@RocktCityTim]

Thanks, Eric. So much power in such a little package. One question - I noticed you're using the 32bit armhf instead of a 64bit aarch64 environment. Any specific reason behind that? I'm building with a combination of RPi 4/4GB and Pine64 RockPRO 64 SBCs.

[@damani662]

Maybe because 64bit still new on raspberry pi.

[@daftsapien]

Really appreciate the attention to detail and the step by step instructions given in this series. One quick question though, I also want my pi4 to act as a NAS with OMV, is it possible to do this alongside an OMV installation?

[@ourkid2000]

That's a great question. I would like to know this as well.

[@EduardoRubioLogan]

I have been running this setup, not ideal (since I'm not experienced) but latest OMV does have docker and portainer installation instructions from plugins section. Only reason I'm using OMV is the ' simplicity' of mounting devices

[@LizzyTheLizard]

Any vids in the work on what portainer stacks are and what they do and can you add adguard to the slefhosted template if possible 🤔

[@chorsfie]

Excellent video, today is my first day with a Pi... I got all this up and running but then switch portainer to force HTTPS (thinking it would install a self signed cert). I've not lost access .. Any tips?

[@MarkBuildGood]

What version of Docker compose does the Raspberry Pi use? It looks like they’ve updated the x86 portainer to version 3 but not the arm version.

[@gacjezv]

Hey Nova - Great series thank you - can I please ask a favour - can you add Part 1, 2 3 etc to this series, so I can follow along easily - Many Thanks Grant

[@autobahntrip6870]

great!!!

[@joeylo2365]

oh oh oh, this is awesome. This series really a very practical for day to day use and learn a lot of thing about docker. I am newbie in the docket world, and I found that really useful and powerful environment. Beside working on RPi4, this knowledge sure can apply on other platforms which support docker. Which Linux distro you will recommend to someone like me, a newbie that want to use an old laptop to run docker? thx a lot.

[@NovaspiritTech]

Debian or ubuntu

[@horizon42q]

Very cool

[@RangerDK21]

Please get well and don't give up

[@joesalgadSF415]

I don’t know anything about this but I’m going to get into whole series because I bought a pi some months ago but I haven’t even taken out the box. I do have some questions. I bought the Cana kit with fan…do I need to have the big fan on the video and also I have a lot of sata drives with enclosed cases, will this be enough to connect to the pi? I sub to your channel. Thanks

[@ben8140]

Great!

[@rajanishkarki550]

Need a part 2 already

[@JudgeD-hc9vw]

Hi Don. Thank you so much for putting this series together. I am doing my best to follow along, but it's not going so good. im running Ubuntu desktop and don't know which docker to install. I have watched, paused, rewind, watch pause rewind so many times. it seems if I could just get the first parts installed, then I could add all the images I feel useful. could you redo the first vid, slowly, for dummies like me.?

[@MegaManNeo]

Oh that could be an interesting series. I have my old Pi2 installed inside my NAS acting as one of two DNS but I consider to move my docker installations from the OMV NAS to the Pi with me replacing the Pi2 with a Pi4. Thing is, I just started myself to mess around with Docker and don't get it entirely yet, especially CLI usage is weird and complex for beginners.

[@NovaspiritTech]

i'm going to explain docker cli a little bit more in future episodes.

[@delboy9257]

Hi, any chance you could make a video on Tdarr in docker as part of pi-hosted series? Would make sense for pruning Plex's libraries :)

[@jeanyveslemagnifik2396]

next video please, too cool

[@glenncol]

Would i be able install Ubuntu on a NUC and then follow these instructions to automate the download and installation of Docker and Portainer? or install Raspberry Pi Lite on a NUC?

[@saltmainz3015]

Coooool

[@dktol56]

Any reason you didn't use the 64-bit version of Raspberry Pi OS, other than the RPi foundation still treats it as experimental? Other distros offer stable 64-bit versions and it looks like there's a 64-bit docker to go with it.

[@thieuson]

yea many docker images need the 64bit os. I must turn to ubuntu 64bit to run all necessary images

[@fortnitestwcontent]

One question if you have directories with files in them how do you delete them on raspberrry pi lite

[@ValentinoMariotto]

Did you use 32 bit Raspbian lite? Is that ok for virtualizing a 64 bit OS in docker?

[@NicMG]

Could you do an updated version of this please, I would like to figure out how to setup up Portainer on pi 4 with Sonarr, Radarr, Plex and if possible Petio or Overseerr, love you videos dude!

[@johnlost9985]

what os are u using on ur pc? looks pretty sick!

What is next for this series? I'm anxious to see what else you're going to make. How much stuff can you actually put on RPi 4 anyway? It's not only how much RAM model has but there is limited CPU power as well.

[@karlmee1234]

I keep getting an error response from daemon when trying to install portainer, any ideas on why that would be happening? it said it cancelled while waiting for a connection and i also seen cintext deadline exceeded

[@HarishPillay]

Would you be exploring adding limesurvey as well?

[@jmsiener]

What about getting something like mopidy running so this server could play music anywhere?

[@jondoyon]

Can we have some new updates on this series? this was a great series

[@MatthewN8OHU]

I'm wondering if those templates will work on the Pi that I'm going to be running Home Assistant on. I will try it out and see, I suppose. The nice thing is that Home Assistant has a built in Portainer addon so I don't have to mess with installing it manually.

[@MatthewN8OHU]

It's not recommended, so I won't go through with it. Instead I'm going to do two companion servers alongside my Home Assistant server; one for data storage, the other for media streaming.

[@PhilReynolds]

I assume this is a RPi4 with 8GB right? That would be a cool thing to add you your descriptions on your video's. Exactly what device/equipment you use in the video. Just a thought. Love your work.

[@hybs9473]

Hi! I am very new to self hosting, I have an old laptop running ubuntu server, is following this series applicable for my ubuntu server or do you have a video that for that too? Thanks!

[@HVG67]

So does this need to be updated for the 64bit version ?

[@cybr774]

Is there any reason for why you went with the 32 bit version of raspbian?

[@Palibre_DP]

Thanks for informative series. In part 1, you image to an SSD/HD then later resize the data partition. Please advise how to or what tool you are using to resize it.

[@natzure7361]

Yes: Need to know how to resize pi partitions as the one made by imager, even on a large usb/hdd is too small. Great video BTW

[@naapsuvaimne740]

installing docker in Raspberry Pi can you use docker to run pfsense

[@joeylo2365]

How can I backup/transfer a complete configurated Container from my pi to my friend's pi via Portainer? thx

[@samone5618]

Is the docker Community Edition (CE) ? Thanks

[@hajunkie5820]

I have been trying to use docker more here lately. I have been using compose also. I am excited for next episode in series. A pi server is a good new project. What is the cooler you are using on the pi?

[@NovaspiritTech]

52pi ice tower

[@hajunkie5820]

This is a great fan it dropped temps on my Pi 40-45 degrees below last fan setup

[@denstl1]

Hi I am new learning docker and portainer. I continue to have the same issue when installing an app (homer) there are no published ports listed in portainer. I cannot conect to the homer dash board. Any suggestions?

[@infotruther]

Can i not use an formated sd card instead oan ssd just untill i bun ssd?

[@grimnecksnapper3789]

Thanks a ton for solving a huge problem of mine. I have an extra windows phone, its an old model. Its utterly useless coz all the important apps are paid and unavailable for free on the internet. Shellinabox solved the problem. Now I can use it with all my rpi projects.

[@mujiburrehmanansari5671]

Thats an epic use of rpi and old phone ;)

[@grimnecksnapper3789]

@@mujiburrehmanansari5671 Yeah man. Windows phone are sooo out of date. Guacamole and Shellinabox are a blessing.

[@Yaoofi]

What distro do you have on main pc? :)

[@hecticxhabib4990]

Hey just wondering what pi 4 you have 2Gb 4Gb or 8Gb

[@paulmaydaynight9925]

is the current ./install_docker.sh broke.. it didn't add pi to docker

[@ankitsinghaniya]

What OS are you using it looks very sleek?

[@fileone1451]

Your video are amazing, u can make a video how to install flaresolver on pi4 docker

[@AdmV0rl0n]

I always end up with a question in the back of my head about the file system and storage with this. Always. Bugged me for years..

[@AbarSimorgh]

Thank you for the series. How can I make my own template so my set up/duplication of my system is easier? Would appreciate feedback.

[@mujiburrehmanansari5671]

I guess you fork from the novaspirit's github repo, and create your own customized App Template and use your own github's link.

[@AbarSimorgh]

@@mujiburrehmanansari5671 Thank you for your reply.

[@kenneths2850]

Thank you for these excellent tutorials. I followed the instructions for the Docker and Portainer installations. How do I permanently remove your pi-hosted banner on the Portainer installation?😅

[@DanielScott-ed4zw]

I'd like to know too!

[@groundrushlabs]

can i do this on a pi cluster?

[@dilipl8470]

Hi Having issues installing and updating portainer and also can't find the exact app template link. A total newbie to such a project.

[@elseawhy]

what's your keyboard? it sounds so good ☺️