Portainer¶

In this article

• Portainer. Key Features
• Deployment Features
• Getting Started after Deploying Portainer
• Ordering a Portainer Server via API

Portainer. Key Features¶

Portainer provides full control over your container infrastructure. Here are the key features we offer:

• Container management: Create, start, stop, restart, and remove containers with minimal effort.
• Image management: Work with images used for creating containers. With us, you can create, store, and manage images in a convenient interface.
• Resource isolation: We ensure resource isolation between applications and containers to keep your system stable and secure.
• Network management: Configure and manage container network interfaces, including routing and monitoring.
• Storage management: Manage data used by containers with tools integrated into Portainer.
• Version control: We help you manage versions of images and containers, simplifying the application update process.
• Security management: Set access rights, monitor security, and encrypt data to keep your infrastructure secure.

Deployment Features¶

• Installation time - 10 minutes along with OS.
• Installed software:
  • Docker CE;
  • Docker Compose;
  • Portainer

Getting Started after Deploying Portainer¶

After payment, a notification will be sent to the email address provided during registration indicating that the server is ready for use. The message will include the VPS IP address, as well as login and password details for connection. Our company's clients manage equipment through the server control panel and API — Invapi.

The authorization data can be found either in the Info >> Tags tab of the server management panel or in the sent email:

• Link to access Docker's web interface: http://<server_ip>:9000/.

The server IP address can be viewed in the Network tab.

Navigate to the link and create an administrator account within 30 minutes after server deployment. Fill in the fields Username, Password, and Confirm password, then click the button:

After successful authorization, you can start working with the service. The Portainer.io web interface for managing container infrastructure includes the following tabs:

• Users - allows management of user accounts, assigning roles and access rights;
• Environments - displays added environments (clusters) where Portainer is running. Allows management of containers in different environments;
• Registries - configure and manage access to container registries (Docker registry);
• Authentication logs - log of user authentication events;
• Notifications - configure and view system notifications;
• Settings - general settings for Portainer, including security settings, backup, and data recovery.

To add a new environment, connect to the server via SSH:

ssh root@<server_ip>

Navigate in the Portainer.io web interface to the Environments tab and select one of the available options, for example, Docker. Then click the button:

The screen will display a command that needs to be executed in the terminal:

The created environment will be accessible via the server's IP address with the port used during creation. You can view and edit information about the created environment in the Home tab of the Portainer.io web interface.

Detailed information on basic Portainer settings is available in the developer documentation.

Ordering a Portainer Server via API¶

To install this software using the API, follow this instruction.

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