Portainer on a separate VM
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Fireman86336 · 2023-12-24 04:38

I'm new to self hosting and starting to play with portainer.  I'm
gonna run a few containers to play around with. Do I need to install
portainer on a separate Ubuntu VM or can it be in the same VM as
docker.

Thank you all for your help!

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stupv · 2023-12-24 04:45

portainer *is* a docker image. easiest to run it in the same docker
env, but it can be remote

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Fireman86336 · 2023-12-24 04:45

Thank you very much!

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merval · 2023-12-24 06:20

I’ve also got multiple hosts with docker installed, so I use a single
portainer to access them all using environments. Works really well!

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alexk7110 · 2023-12-24 06:46

There's Portainer Agent that you can run once you get to 2 docker
hosts or more and control them by Portainer but in your case you don't
have to as explained above.

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douglagm · 2023-12-24 07:19

I always move my docker directory to its own partition, it is not
necessary, but feel it is a good practice as not to potentially affect
the host because of disk space

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Agile_Ad_2073 · 2023-12-24 11:16

Just run portainer in the same VM you have docker on. No need to
separate it. You can though but not necessary

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CC-5576-05 · 2023-12-24 11:37

You only need to run one portainer instance, you can link the two
Docker installations. I don't remember how to do it but it's called
"environments" in portainer.

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-my_dude · 2023-12-25 02:56

It has to be on the same host that has the docker instance