Neil Cresswell talks about “Using Portainer.io (Docker Container Management)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

Portainer.io, which is an open-source "human friendly" Management UI for Docker

Docker command line is very complex. Portainer greatly simplifies this.

Portainer gives you access to a central overview of your Docker host or Swarm cluster. From the dashboard, you can easily access any manageable entity.

The containers section provides a view of all available containers. You can see details about the containers (state, image, exposed ports...), filter or sort the containers and manage them using standard actions (start, run, remove...).

Container Details

You can access a lot more information in the container details section and trigger common operations, access the stats and logs sections, start an exec instance to open a console in your container or even commit a container to create an image.

Container Stats

Portainer allows you to view container stats in real time: CPU and memory usage, networking and processes running in the container.

Container Logs

Easily investigate the behavior of your container by inspecting its logs.

Container Console

Portainer allows you to start an exec instance which allows you to open a console in your container directly in your browser.

Container Creation

Access the container creation form, which allows you to simply create your containers. It also gives you access to advanced container creation options.

Future auto scale

Image List

The images section provides a view of all available images. You can easily pull new image from the Docker hub or a private registry and easily manage all your images.

Access a lot more information in the image details section from the size of the image to the related Dockerfile information. You can also manage image tags and push it to any registry (either Docker hub or any private registry).

Network List

The networks section provides a view of all available networks. Easily manage your networks from a centralized view or quickly create new networks.

Volume List

As for the networks, you can easily manage the available volumes from this section and create more volumes.

Cluster Overview

When using Portainer with Docker Swarm or Swarm Mode, this section gives your more details on each node in your cluster.

Portainer allows you to manage to multiple Docker environments from a single instance.

User Management And User Access Control

Portainer adds a security layer on top of Docker with authentication, multiple user management and the ability to define restrict access to some resources.

Prevent Crypto miner hacking

Pricing - free

Install - 3 seconds from command line

Competitors

SHIPYARD - no longer being developed

PANAMAX - 3 years in beta - not released to production yet

Swarmpit - new

Documentation, help, support

Docs

Swagger API

Slack group

240 million downloads, 10 million per week

Microservices

Swarm

Why are you proud to use Docker?

WWIT for you to make Docker more alive this year?

What are you looking forward to at Into The Box?

Mentioned in this episode

Portainer.io

Docker version 18

RaspberryPi

Docker Swarm

Kubernetes

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Bio

Neil Cresswell

Neil is the co-founder of Portainer.io, which is an open-source "human friendly" Management UI for Docker; the founder of CloudInovasi.id, which is a Indonesia-centric Docker Container as a Service Provider (and which provided the initial inspiration for Portainer), and is the co-founder of a NZ company called Emerging Technology Partners, which specialises in Docker consulting.

Neil obtained initial exposure to Docker technologies through his previous role as CEO of IndonesianCloud,