Portainer

Portainer is a lightweight sexy UI for visualizing your docker environment. It also happens to integrate well with Docker Swarm clusters, which makes it a great fit for our stack.

Portainer Screenshot

This is a "lightweight" recipe, because Portainer is so "lightweight". But it is shiny...

Ingredients

  1. Docker swarm cluster with persistent shared storage
  2. Traefik configured per design
  3. DNS entry for the hostname you intend to use, pointed to your keepalived IP

Preparation

Setup data locations

Create a folder to store portainer's persistent data:

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mkdir /var/data/portainer

Setup Docker Swarm

Create a docker swarm config file in docker-compose syntax (v3), something like this:

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version: "3"

services:
  app:
    image: portainer/portainer
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
      - /var/data/portainer:/data
    networks:
      - traefik_public
    deploy:
      labels:
        - traefik.frontend.rule=Host:portainer.funkypenguin.co.nz
        - traefik.port=9000
      placement:
        constraints: [node.role == manager]
    command: -H unix:///var/run/docker.sock

networks:
  traefik_public:
    external: true

Serving

Launch Portainer stack

Launch the Portainer stack by running docker stack deploy portainer -c <path -to-docker-compose.yml>

Log into your new instance at https://YOUR-FQDN. You'll be prompted to set your admin user/password.

Chef's Notes 📓

  1. I wanted to use oauth2_proxy to provide an additional layer of security for Portainer, but the proxy seems to break the authentication mechanism, effectively making the stack so secure, that it can't be logged into!

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