How to Install Portainer with Docker in Ubuntu 20.04

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This tutorial will show you how to install Portainer with Docker on Ubuntu 20.04. Overall, you will learn how to install Docker-Compose, create a portainer volume, and then create the Portainer container.

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Step 1: Install Docker Compose

To install Docker-Compose, open Putty and SSH into your server.

Then run this command:

sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.21.2/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Then, set the permissions:

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

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Step 2: Create Portainer Volume

With Putty still open, create the Portainer volume.

sudo docker volume create portainer_data

Then, create the Portainer container:

sudo docker run -d -p 9000:9000 -p 8000:8000 --name portainer --restart always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v /srv/portainer:/data portainer/portainer

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Step 3: Start the Docker container.

sudo docker start portainer

Portainer should now be running at your server’s IP and port 9000. (i.e. – 192.168.68.141:9000). If you don’t know the IP address of your server, just type ifconfig into your terminal.

The username is admin with no default password, so you’ll need to create a password.

This is a local server, so you would choose Local, and then click Connect.

If you already have existing Docker containers, you should now see them under your Local section.

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Wrapping Up

That’s it! You can now use Portainer to create multi-container applications such as BookStack.

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