Deploy Portainer in Linux environments

Deploy Portainer in Kubernetes

To deploy Portainer within a Kubernetes cluster, you can either use our HELM chart, or our provided manifests.

Note that Portainer CE 2.0 supports Kubernetes version 1.16, 1.17 and 1.18 only.

Pre-Req Note:

Portainer requires data persistence, and as a result needs at least one storage-class available to use. Portainer will attempt to use the "default" storage class during deployment. If you do NOT have a storage class tagged as "default" the deployment will likely fail.

You can check if you have a default storage class by running:

 > kubectl get sc 

and looking for a storage class with (default) after its name:

If you want to make a storage class the default, you can type the command:

 >kubectl patch storageclass  -p '{"metadata": {"annotations":{"storageclass.kubernetes.io/is-default-class":"true"}}}' 

and replace with the name of your storage class (eg: kubectl patch storageclass local-path -p '{"metadata": {"annotations":{"storageclass.kubernetes.io/is-default-class":"true"}}}'

Alternatively, if you are using HELM you can use:

 --set persistence.storageClass= 

Using Helm

First, add the Portainer helm repo running the following:

 helm repo add portainer https://portainer.github.io/k8s/

 helm repo update

Then, create the Portainer namespace in your cluster

 kubectl create namespace portainer

For NodePort

Using the following command, Portainer will run in the port 30777

 helm install -n portainer portainer portainer/portainer

For Load Balancer

Using the following command, Portainer will run in the port 9000.

 helm install -n portainer portainer portainer/portainer --set service.type=LoadBalancer

For Ingress

 helm install -n portainer portainer portainer/portainer --set service.type=ClusterIP

Using YAML Manifest

First create the Portainer namespace in your cluster

 kubectl create namespace portainer

For NodePort

Using the following command, Portainer will run in the port 30777

 kubectl apply -n portainer -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/portainer/k8s/master/deploy/manifests/portainer/portainer.yaml

For Load Balancer

kubectl apply -n portainer -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/portainer/k8s/master/deploy/manifests/portainer/portainer-lb.yaml

Deploy Portainer in Docker

Portainer is comprised of two elements, the Portainer Server, and the Portainer Agent. Both elements run as lightweight Docker containers on a Docker engine or within a Swarm cluster. Due to the nature of Docker, there are many possible deployment scenarios, however, we have detailed the most common below. Please use the scenario that matches your configuration.

Note that the recommended deployment mode when using Swarm is using the Portainer Agent.

To see the requeriments, please, visit the page of requirements

Docker Standalone

Use the following Docker commands to deploy the Portainer Server; note the agent is not needed on standalone hosts, however it does provide additional functionality if used (see portainer and agent scenario below):

 docker volume create portainer_data

 docker run -d -p 8000:8000 -p 9000:9000 --name=portainer --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce

Docker Swarm

Deploying Portainer and the Portainer Agent to manage a Swarm cluster is easy! You can directly deploy Portainer as a service in your Docker cluster. Note that this method will automatically deploy a single instance of the Portainer Server, and deploy the Portainer Agent as a global service on every node in your cluster.

 curl -L https://downloads.portainer.io/portainer-agent-stack.yml -o portainer-agent-stack.yml

 docker stack deploy -c portainer-agent-stack.yml portainer

Portainer Agent Deployments Only

Docker Standalone

Run the following command to deploy the Agent in your Docker host.

docker run -d -p 9001:9001 --name portainer_agent --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v /var/lib/docker/volumes:/var/lib/docker/volumes portainer/agent

Docker Swarm

Deploy Portainer Agent on a remote LINUX Swarm Cluster as a Swarm Service, run this command on a manager node in the remote cluster.

 docker service create --name portainer_agent --network portainer_agent_network --publish mode=host,target=9001,published=9001 -e AGENT_CLUSTER_ADDR=tasks.portainer_agent --mode global --mount type=bind,src=//var/run/docker.sock,dst=/var/run/docker.sock --mount type=bind,src=//var/lib/docker/volumes,dst=/var/lib/docker/volumes –-mount type=bind,src=/,dst=/host portainer/agent

Notes

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