Docker GUI tool — Portainer

Don’t like working with the Docker-command line or difficult to remember docker commands, messy loggings, and adverse container analysis.

Don’t Worry, this blog will ease your working with docker containers and environments and I’ll walk you through the simplest way to get started by deploying the Portainer server and leverage its functionality in your servers/containers.

Well, There are various open-source tools on the Internet that provides a docker Graphical user interface, like kitematic, shipyard, Dockstation & Portainer, etc. However, In this blog, I’ll mainly focus on Portainer and its flexibility to work with Docker containers,

?What is PORTAINER?

It is a lightweight web UI that allows you to easily manage your Docker containers, images, networks, and volumes.

It is meant to be as simple to deploy as it is to use. It consists of a single container that can run on any Docker engine (can be deployed as a Linux container or a Windows native container).

It provides flexibility in the creation, editing, management, monitoring, and deletion of containers, as well as the ability to add, remove, and view images, networks, and volumes, but not edit them.

Today, I will emphasize more on the Snapshot part of the Portainer Server rather than on the theory part. Also, I’ll put docker commands in the snapshot captions for equivalent GUI features described.