Portainer Install Ubuntu tutorial - manage your docker containers

[@christianlempa]

Watch Next ➡️ NGINX Proxy Manager tutorial: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmTMnnl5bKyGqJI

[@cheickmarc]

KZbin remove this video, how can i access ?

[@christianlempa]

@@cheickmarc YT has put the video online again ;)

[@temidayooladele9856]

UPDATE: if you are following this video and you can't find the Settings -> Enpoints on 11:03 , Please note that it has changed to *ENVIRONMENTS* as at version 2.18.4. took me some time to figure that out. Great video

[@andy-v]

I love the fact you don't just copy and paste commands, but actually explain what they're doing. Therefore, you became one of my favorite youtubers some while back. Keep up the good work!

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much! Glad to hear the explanation is helping you :)

[@joshuacurtiss]

Wow, well done on this video. It's literally the first video I looked at when investigating portainer and I'm impressed. I'm old school and have done docker compose from the command line and now getting ready to set up a new home server with Ubuntu, Docker, Nextcloud, nginx, plex, and more. I may start out with your portainer/nginx setup.

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much! :)

[@breakfast-burrito]

I’ve recently discovered the gem that is Apache Guacamole. I can finally tie all my VMs and hypervisors into one web UI. Im really just getting started on docker so this is stupid helpful. The explanations of WHY you’re doing what you’re doing are incredibly helpful

[@voxel7]

3:30 where exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the easy explanation.

[@contra2099]

Hello Cristian, I hope you are well. I watched this video of yours countless times, the content of this and other videos of yours has helped me a lot, thank you for always sharing your knowledge.

[@maxwellmuhanda7940]

I have watched and learned a lot from you this past three days Thank you

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much! I'm glad it could help :)

[@HAtinkerer]

One of the best videos explaining portainer. Excellent

[@christianlempa]

Thx! :)

[@AllahomAnsorGaza]

man i just love you you really make my life easier

[@christianlempa]

thanks man :)

[@127bits7]

This is such an awesome video! Thank you, Christian.

[@ClarkeCurran]

So good.. thank you. All straight up keyboard strokes and no cut and paste.. very good.. make a course and I buy!

[@hassannoor6185]

i have watched some of your videos and implemented , they awsome. Learned a lot

[@paskals8207]

Dear content creator. When you're recording the commands you're typing on screen, would you mind not showing them at the bottom of the screen? This is where the KZbin controls often appear as an overlay. Other than that, thank you for the awesome content.

[@christianlempa]

Hey, fair point! I reworked a little bit my overlay, showing my taskbar in the future, so that the terminal bottom line will be naturally a little bit higher :)

[@BorisBrodski]

Great, it will also allow us to zoom a bit in, if necessary.

[@graemewiebe2815]

Wow, thanks so much! I used this in my setup - it took some tweaking, but in general it was an amazing guide.

[@elements88xyz]

Chris, thank you so much for your guides, really well explained! 😁😎

[@ml.2770]

If Dr. Evil was a youtuber. Excellent content.

[@SuStudio36]

Hats off for this video and the one with nginx, you have a new subscriber, thank you very much keep up the good work !!

[@christianlempa]

Thanks! Appreciated

[@CoolStoryStudio]

Fantastic quick tutorial, easy to follow, and to the point.

[@heresjhonny702]

Amazing. It was very easy to follow the tutorial, thank you

[@Scoutjoe108]

Hi @christianlempa, I love the pace, clarity and detail of your videos. I'm getting a start working with Docker and decided to run Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi5. I'm following you with great detail but hit a snag when I started the Nginix Proxy Manager and entered the default admin username and password. It gave me a Bad Gateway error. Any thoughts on where I might have gone wrong? Thanks!

[@christianlempa]

Bad Gateway in NPM means most likely a problem with the DB, thank you so much for your support :) Join our Discord! We might be able to help you!

[@-a6833]

In your script you might want to change 'jc21/mariadb-aria:10.4' to 'jc21/mariadb-aria:latest', since the 10.4 image doesn't exist anymore by the looks of it, it will throw an error, also little note version 3 works now (also for people confused, endpoint is now called environment)

[@christianlempa]

Thanks' for letting me know, I'll update it soon!

[@LuizGuilhermeSalles]

thanks for the info

[@i.p.knightly149]

Thanks, couldn't find "endpoints", was lost there

[@PrizrenaliZH]

Love this! You introfuced me to nginx proxy manager. So far I was using acme companion, which does a lot of uncontrollable stuff. I am planning to change my server. I ve already rented a new dedi, and I will do exactly this setup intially on it starting tonight. Greeting from Zurich

[@wildflowers465]

What an amazing video! I'm learning a ton from you, thanks; I really like your mission, and as IT professionals, we benefit so much from elegant, cheerful, and helpful explanations like yours. Also, I simply didn't know how cool portainer was, or even that it existed.

[@christianlempa]

Oh thank you that goes directly to my heart! :D

[@jamesT008]

Great...i used before but need to use again as managing many containers by CLI is typical...so will go for web management

[@kailashks901]

I get internal error when trying to get the ssl certificate.

[@GuilhermeSa001]

Thanks!

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much! :)

[@Vissepisse11]

Very useful tutorial! Had some issues getting the SSL certficates working but found the problem was in Cloudflare. You have to disable their proxy using the orange cloud icon next to your dns-record and set it to DNS only while installing. Remember to set it back to "proxied" afterwards to hide your IP.

[@christianlempa]

Thanks!

[@barbietripping]

This actually happened to me on another project too. Have learned to disable cloudflare proxy until ssl certificates were all set

[@dogelicks]

Thanks for tutorial but I keep getting bad gateway error when logging into nginx for first time.

[@ddmmh]

Very good video. Presented perfectly! That accent would also work well as a supervillain in some blockbuster movie 😂

[@christianlempa]

Lol, thanks' :D

[@readygameronerg1704]

Installing Portainer now! Thanks!

[@christianlempa]

Good choice!

[@alien8tiv]

Well done, bro! Great video!

[@christianlempa]

Glad you liked it!

[@nowfalnazar4816]

For anyone wondering why the exec console function in portainer is not working after following this tutorial, enable wss sockets support on the details tab of proxy host setup page.

[@giacomobiancalana6949]

Command "ip a " at 4:22 gives public ip address? Why it doesn't work for me? It only gives me the private one

[@maeglingondolinsbane3446]

great video I began to use portainer some weeks ago on my home lab it's an amazing tool. Still having some problems with ssl but that's my crappy router's fault. ;)

[@christianlempa]

Thanks man! What is the problem with the router?

[@maeglingondolinsbane3446]

@@christianlempa It's just a basic router preconfigured by my isp with port 80 blocked ... I'm looking at some microtik gear to upgrade asap.

[@MatheusTerraOficial]

Amazing! Simple and fast. Thankss

[@nicolsdennis]

Thanks for the video, tested the install today on google cloud vm, once i'm familiar enough with portainer i may place it on my main vps. Thanks again.

[@christianlempa]

Glad you liked it 😁

[@nicolsdennis]

@@christianlempa can you do a video on how to use portainer to launch a jitsi meet server? I can't find a guide on this anywhere about the creation of an image.

[@slowjocrow6451]

Thanks so much for your tutorial. Very easy and straightforward. Subscribed! I'm trying to set up a home server. I don't want to expose my portainer externally, but I still want to use https, and access it with a more friendly url (instead of IP Address). Can you give me some tips how to achieve that?

[@eduardogil1775]

Excellent tutorial, thanks for sharing!! 👍🏼

[@christianlempa]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@Daniel-qo9uv]

hello Thanks for the video, I try to install NGINX Proxy Manager with Portainer 2.11.1 and openMediaVault. but I install your script a I get an 502 response after 10:06 how can I fix it? THX

[@All3me1]

4:24 I am not able to find a working IP address. What can I do?

[@snakeplessken]

I just used the IP Address of the Raspberry Pi instead of the public IP and that worked. Was having the same issue that would not connect. I'm not sure if this is correct though. I'm a complete novice in this. Hopefully, the dude in the video could advise?? (Thanks in advance)

[@quintinfick8050]

Awesome channel and content Christian! I have to recover data (or containers?) on an unbootable VMware Ubuntu VM that you can still read the file structure on. The VM was running Docker images of Nginx, SnipeIT, Zammad and some others. Could you make recommendations on how to rescue the data (or containers) and run them on another VM or even physical machine?

[@GorkemYildirim]

Thanks for the guide. It is very easy to install in fact. I first met with this thanks to the OMV plugin and using often with multiple containers.

[@christianlempa]

Thanks man! 😊

[@JosephVM]

In the new versions *Settings > Endpoints* is changed to *Settings > Environments*

[@Mo7ammed.Siddiq]

Awesome, many thanks 😊

[@Glatze603]

Hi Christian, thanks for this nice portainer-video. Would you please show me/us how to configure portainer for managing multiple servers in one portainer instance. That would be great. Thanks a lot :-)

[@christianlempa]

Nice suggestion, I'll add it to my videos list 😊

[@Vash612584]

Do you have a link to the docker compose file you used at 9:47 ? I'm not seeing it anywhere on the blog for this video

[@christianlempa]

Fair point, I need to update them on my git repo and add the link to the video, thanks for letting me know! In the meantime, take a look at my boilerplates repo on github, there you should find a template for portainer docker-compose.

[@parheliaa]

Good video. It could mention what's the difference between Agent and Edge Agent is though

[@christianlempa]

Thanks! There will be soon an updated video about the different agent types and setup :) stay tuned

[@swampycord]

Thank you professor Charles Xavier

[@christianlempa]

Lol that's the first time I hear this 🤣

[@electrongrup]

Thank you, it is a good video. For my case, I had issues to implement based on provided details. First, I got errors when deploy the Stack (“Error response from daemon: error while creating mount source path '/data/compose...”) - solved by adding full path in the Web editor where volumes details were Secondly, I had to port forward 443 to my local IP address for proxy to work.

[@andrescorrea125]

I am having similar problems , im just gonna use something else , now I cannot even log in the web ui , and before I could , it is a mess now on how to install , at least in my end .

[@MohamedSonaTa]

Thanks bro for the tutorial... My question is the portainer is the best way to use a Cpanel to mange Ubuntu Vps server

[@Brian-nz6ns]

What service is running on port 8000? Is this required? and why is the Secord port forward the web gui?

[@JulianGarcia-ru5me]

Hi great video!! Its been so nice to finally get a clear explanaiton on how to setup docker and portnainer on a vps. i´ve been able to follow along most of your tutorials, but on this one i have encountered a problem and dont know how to fix it. When im trying the login on the nginx proxy server login page, i get a 502 bad gateway error. I dont know why this is, someone has an idea of what could i do to fix it?

[@walterdevos8752]

The blog post about the Proxy Manger is offline, and so are any of the other posts about it. ( ? )

[@christianlempa]

You find the write up on GitHub, link is in the DOCS statement

[@maarten119]

Is there a video where you show how to add edge env when nginx proxy is enabled?

[@myriaquekoko4758]

the endpoint no longer exists on the new version of portainer . i still have This site can't be reached . i don't know how to solve it

[@user-hcrljfm]

Thanks so much for this

[@lawsnewton]

Awesome guide thank you!!!

[@christianlempa]

Thank you, toO! :)

[@RanjitSingh-wy4ku]

Amazing stuff. Worked perfectly. I have two concerns, I can still access the nginx reverse proxy via ip address even though my portainer website is secured. Second concern is, Nginx Proxy Manager 81 port (admin panel) is also accessible directly. Kindly point which steps should be taken to secure this. Your help is greatly appreciated.

[@All3me1]

2:53 I only get the message "Got permission denied while trying to connect to the docker daemon socket at unix://..….."

[@All3me1]

Putting sudo in front of the comand fixed the problem

[@cfany85]

any idea why I don't get potrts open, I follow all instructions and column "ports" is empty? I tryed to wipe all and reintall it and still no luck.

[@Arabiska]

Great video! thanks

[@vanhussen]

Thank you, it's work!

[@ichilvers]

Following your video guide on deploying NginxReverseProxy with portainer. Whats the best way to backup and restore the NginxReverseProxy configuration?

[@christianlempa]

Simply backup the docker volumes for the DB and the App. I did a video on duplicati you can use for that

[@mohammedshahbaazshareef5549]

Excellent tutorial

[@christianlempa]

Thank you, glad you liked it!

[@seifabdaoui8511]

or we can easly avoid rerun the portainer container iwth enginx network we can join network easly on portainer container using portainer ui itself, so we can also delete the default portainer port access on 9000 by let the new nginx network

[@Ugauga123456789]

I'm getting a "Internal error when i'm trying to add SSL to my Proxy Host. Does someone have the same problem?

[@mrtruebeliever]

Same here, have not yet found a solution.

[@ceciliadao2834]

Does someone has a solution? I have the same problem

[@str0g]

when you 'moved' the portainer to the Proxy Manager's network via the shell, why didn't you do it over the webitnerface of portainer itself?

[@christianlempa]

When I redeployed portainer with portainer it didn't work for me

[@mohammadshakir1664]

Hi Good to see again. I appreciate your work. I am facing issue to developing postal smtp email server in kubernetes.

[@christianlempa]

Thank you 😊

[@BorisBrodski]

Where do you actually put your configuration files for all the containers? For example, I need to do "-v config.yml:/etc/.../config.yml". Are there some UI support in portainer to store/edit config files (not only for swarm) or some other tool you are using? Thank you!

[@christianlempa]

I usually put them now in my personal home folder, that's where I'm running the containers, that has become my preferred way.

[@marcello4258]

if I understand this correctly portainer as well as all container will run as root?

[@jornkast]

Not sure if there has been a change to portainer, but I'm not able to get the setup to work using your guide. No webinterface appears when using the proxy address (works for other containers on the same system) and the letsencrypt part also fails with internal error.

[@christianlempa]

I'm not sure, maybe you could share some details about your setup on our Discord

[@deejayblacklight]

did u deploy these in the cloud or home network?

[@obenfrance]

Thanks, amazing video ! You rock

[@christianlempa]

Thank you! :D

[@soulkeeper8801]

Hi Chris, very nice video. I wonder why you move Portainer to “proxy manager” network and not just forward to needed port? Isn’t it security issue if proxy have been compromised will have access to portainer itself? If they are separated internally will be dead end for attack.

[@christianlempa]

Docker networks are isolated, so in order to connect both containers you need to put them on the same network. Just forwarding the portainers' port is in my opinion more insecure, as it doesn't have HTTPS encrypted by default.

[@tmxwll]

Cant we disable sharing port 9000 too? Thx 😊

[@christianlempa]

Yes, portainer now added ssl support so I would recommend to close the 9000 port now

[@bootifulghost8624]

If I decide to expose certain services (as example; bitwarden, bookstack and wordpress) to the internet, but wish to keep several other services in my home-network (as example; nginx, portainer and duplicati) - I am best of to just create two different docker-networks or will I need to create a specific network per service that I want to expose?

[@christianlempa]

This is how I would do it: Create to separate docker networks (external, internal) and connect NPM to both. Then you can expose services of both networks with NPM, how you want it. But you still have two isolated networks in docker. I hope that helps 😉

[@bootifulghost8624]

@@christianlempa Thank you for your reply. Will try it like that :)

[@mandrasaptakmandal636]

How to connect Cloudflare DDNS (Cloudflared) with Cloudflare and a domain using portainer without opening any port or changing any router settings? thanks in advance

[@christianlempa]

Check out our Discord for help, might be better than YT comments ;)

[@mandrasaptakmandal636]

@@christianlempa thanks! I will check it out

[@oliviandosse2839]

My portainer takes too much time to open in the browser,more than two hours already. I am still waiting

[@jorge28624]

well, this is better than trying to make K8s cooperate with you

[@mEti8]

Can you please make a video on how to install and configure Portainer, Traefik/Nginx, Bitwarden_RS and Pi-Hole/ADGuard Home (on Docker)? Edit: can I do your tutorial at home on my Ubuntu VM or do I need an online server? I don't have a static IP!

[@christianlempa]

I'll have a look at bitwarden and pi-hole, that's coming for sure! But it may take a while ;)

[@bootifulghost8624]

@@christianlempa Yeah, I'd love that too!

[@marcOnline]

I missed something where did he explain how to add and manage containers...

[@ali5t4ir]

Many thanks for this informative tutorial...unfortunately I'm getting an internal error when trying to save the SSL - I have setup Portainer on my AWS & using my Public DNS for Domain Name everything else is the same settings, any advice would be much appreciated - I have opened port 9000 & can access normally but I cant get passed the SSL creation

[@christianlempa]

Portainer doesn't come with SSL by default, you need to use a reverseproxy or loadbalancer in this case

[@ali5t4ir]

@@christianlempa Thank you for your response & I did follow your instruction for reverseproxy but got an internal error when I got to 12:30 in your clip where you were assigning a SSL Certificate & wondered what I have done wrong? I'm trying to deploy this on AWS

[@watchedsvideo]

@@ali5t4ir I think you have to use a domain name and not the AWS public IP address when requesting your SSL Certificate from LetsEncrypt

[@nobinkhan5913]

can you please make a video of how to install portainer and Nginx proxy manager step by step... I followed your videos but I am facing so many problems...

[@christianlempa]

You may check out our discord for help or specific questions, it's hard to tell what's going wrong.

[@nobinkhan5913]

@@christianlempa ok, is there any way to install prestashop in docker with nginx server. It will be very helpfull if you make one..

[@str0g]

where do you have ur ubuntu instance running? on a seperate vm in proxmox?

[@christianlempa]

Yeah it's running in a vm

[@EYNugget]

good video, however, after running portainer-ce (using your exact command line) I went to look from the local web browser. It only showed "Loading Portainer" and a broken image link.

[@christianlempa]

Thanks! I would try to redeploy it, never seen this problem with portainer :/

[@manishkumarsingh3462]

How we can integrate portainer with cockpit ??

[@TrixifyHD]

I have a problem.. When i create portainer and run it as you did. i can only connect to port 9000 with local ip. If i use public ip with port i get to Nginx proxy manager(withouth even having it installed!) did a complete fresh install of docker and same happend again. how is that possible? Any idea why? can i use some other port isntead of 9000? Great video! Sadly it´s not working for me at this time

[@christianlempa]

With NPM you should be able to redirect traffic based on the incoming URL

[@TrixifyHD]

@@christianlempa hmm interesting. like redirecting host in NPM? If you check time 4:28 in your video for some reason i get redirected to NPM(Public ip+ 9000 port) but with local ip and 9000 port i normally can connect to portainer. So it works localy. did check ports and the list is the same as yours. Port 9000 is forwarded on router, firewall turned off. Thanks for replying.

[@ronald0122]

can you do a video about docker socket proxy?

[@christianlempa]

Currently I don't have a use case for that, maybe in the future ;)

[@oliviandosse2839]

My portainer doesn’t take a public up address but the address my router gives which is a private public address

[@ulrichbeutenmuller8101]

Great video.

[@christianlempa]

Thanks!

[@ChrisJohnsonuk]

Is there a Portainer equivalent for Podman?

[@christianlempa]

Havent seen one yet unfortunately

[@zodyking4737]

If your new to this like me and bought your vps from contabo, and also have no idea what the heck your doing. Well dont install the gnome desktop will kill your performance install portainer & cockpit. You will be able to manage your docker apps & your server from you browser via their web gui

[@IrfanMayendraPutra]

thankyou very much sir!

[@christianlempa]

Most welcome!

[@ryanmalone2681]

Hard to understand what special thing you did to enable the web UI but there is no webUI available for me and it's way too complicated to manage everything only in the command line. In fact, none of the portainer containers have a web UI, not even the arrs, despite starting up successfully. There must be a trick to getting the UI enabled in Portainer.

[@swedishpsychopath8795]

I don't understand why they are mixing kubernetes into this. Isn't portainer doing some of the stuff kubernetes is doing - but targeted at developers / smaller businesses that doesn't need the complexity of kubernetes?

[@FadedDreamzTv]

The blog link takes you to github?

[@christianlempa]

Yeah I deleted my website :D but all the docs are still in github

[@FadedDreamzTv]

@@christianlempa I found them once I started to look around!

[@kyklos263]

We could not connect your local environment to Portainer. Unable to retrieve environments need help ! ! !

[@litadabula6120]

portainer made an update, change the 'portainer/portainer-ce' part to 'portainer/portainer'

[@dankkster]

this doesnt work any more it seems

[@aziaev]

I'm too stupid for this, but I will keep trying